Quotes from Carl Jung
No concept is a carrier of life.
- Carl Jung
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
- Carl Jung
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.
- Carl Jung
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
- Carl Jung
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas
- Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
- Carl Jung
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
- Carl Jung
Nothing is possible without love.
- Carl Jung
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
- Carl Jung
God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.
- Carl Jung