Carl Jung Quotes - Page 4

• The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Resources, Ability

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• The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Sin, Unconscious

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• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Innovation, Energy

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  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 reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  Carl Jung

  Thoughtful, Order, Secret Love

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.32, Princeton University Press

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

  Carl Jung

  Depth, Ascent, Descent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Hatred, Quality

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• The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, People, Evil

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Thoughtful, Shoes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

  Carl Jung

  War, Men, Epidemics

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• Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Perception, Intuition

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• I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Sides, Whole

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• Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Human Life, Fulfilled

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• That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fate

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• We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Accepting

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wall, Positive Thinking

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• The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Men, Psychics

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 185, 1928.

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• You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Forgotten Things, Finding Yourself

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

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• Dawn is born at midnight.

  Carl Jung

  Dawn, Midnight, Born

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• You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

  Carl Jung

  Live Life, Spirit, Moments

  Carl Gustav Jung, Claire Douglas (1997). “Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C.G. Jung”, p.760, Princeton University Press

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• If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

  Carl Jung

  Mind, Unhappy, Ifs

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• Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Dirty, Sea

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• I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Don't Believe, Knows

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• Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fighting, Self Confidence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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