Quotes from Carl Jung
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
- Carl Jung
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.
- Carl Jung
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
- Carl Jung
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
- Carl Jung
The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
- Carl Jung
That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.
- Carl Jung
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
- Carl Jung
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
- Carl Jung
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
- Carl Jung
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
- Carl Jung
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.
- Carl Jung