Carl Jung

Psychology Swiss 1875 – 1961 206 quotes

Founded analytical psychology, archetypes and collective unconscious

Quotes by Carl Jung

The only way to deal with the devil is to make him conscious.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 11

The true meaning of life is to be found in the depths of the soul.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

The greatest burden a child has to bear is the unlived life of its parents.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 17

The human psyche is a vast and complex territory, full of hidden treasures and dangerous pitfalls.

Man and His Symbols

The shadow is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be integrated.

Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

The individual is the only true reality.

The Undiscovered Self

Meaning makes a great many things endurable—perhaps everything.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Life calls us to change, and we are not ready. We resist, and we suffer.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Knowledge rests not only on truth but also on error.

Psychological Types

The deeper the suffering, the higher the consciousness.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

The soul is not a thing, but a process.

Psychological Types

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born.

Psychological Types

The highest truth is that there is no highest truth.

Psychological Types

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.

Psychological Types

The experience of the numinous is the true and ultimate source of religion.

Psychology and Religion

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential for growth.

Psychological Types

The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am not fulfilling my responsibility.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

The highest goal of man is the realization of his own being.

Psychological Types

The future depends on what you do today.

Psychological Types

We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul