Carl Jung

Psychology Swiss 1875 – 1961 206 quotes

Founded analytical psychology, archetypes and collective unconscious

Quotes by Carl Jung

The more you are able to say 'this is me,' the more you become yourself.

Letters, Vol. 1

The greatest tragedy of the soul is when it is not heard.

Letters, Vol. 1

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is to going beyond it.

Letters, Vol. 1

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Letters, Vol. 1

We are living in a time of spiritual destitution.

Letters, Vol. 1

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means for the attainment of his ends.

Letters, Vol. 1

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

Letters, Vol. 1

The human psyche is a vast and complex territory, and we are only beginning to map its contours.

Letters, Vol. 1

The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The Undiscovered Self

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever achieve.

The Practice of Psychotherapy

Without the experience of the opposites, there is no experience of the whole.

Psychology and Religion

The greatest danger for man is that he loses his own soul without knowing it.

The Undiscovered Self

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Psychological Types

The dream is a product of the unconscious, and it is a spontaneous and natural phenomenon.

Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930

The ego is not the whole self. It is only the conscious part of the self.

Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

Man and His Symbols

The symbol is a living thing, in that it is pregnant with meaning.

Man and His Symbols

The individuation process is the conscious realization of one's own unique psychological reality, including both strengths and limitations.

Psychological Types

The animus is the archetype of meaning and spirit.

Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

The archetype is an archaic, primordial type of universal image.

The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious