Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung (Swiss Psychologist)

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychologist. He was the founder of analytical psychology and established many significant methods of psychiatric therapy.

Born in Kesswil, Switzerland, Jung studied medicine at the universities of Basle and Zürich. He made his name as a psychiatrist with his physiological and psychological studies of schizophrenia. He initially collaborated with Sigmund Freud on psychoanalytic theories of personality but split-up later because of Freud’s obsession with sexuality as the determinant of personality.

Jung’s foremost interest was the unconscious backdrop of conscious life; he assigned much meaning to dreams. He originated the concept of an introvert and extrovert personality and the four psychological functions—sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling.

Jung is not regarded as a systematic philosopher, but his religious and spiritual vision—in particular, his interest in oriental religion—have had their influence. In his most important work, The Psychology of the Unconscious (1912,) he described his belief of a collective unconscious, which he synthesized with a theory of archetypes for studying the history and psychology of religion.

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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
—Carl Gustav Jung

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is… lack of faith.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Unhappiness, Belief, Happiness, Faith

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Disorder

Only that which changes remains true.
—Carl Gustav Jung

We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child’s soul, no less than for the growing plant.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Teaching

Not to be able to grow old is just as ridiculous as to be unable to outgrow childhood.
—Carl Gustav Jung

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
—Carl Gustav Jung

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Solitude

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Mind, The Mind

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Talent

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Being True to Yourself, Vision

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Fear

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Thought

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Light

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Evangelism

The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man’s progressive alienation from his instinctual foundation, i.e., by his uprootedness and identification with his conscious knowledge of himself, by his concern with consciousness at the expense of the unconscious. The result is that modern man can know himself only in so far as he can become conscious of himself—his consciousness therefor orients itself chiefly by observing and investigating the world around him, and it is to its peculiarities that he must adapt his psychic and technical resources. This task is so exacting, and its fulfillment so advantageous, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively replace reality. Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious, spirit and nature, knowledge and faith, a split that becomes pathological the moment his consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Insanity

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Imagination

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 Gustav Jung
Topics: Loneliness

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived life of their parents.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Nature, Parenting, Influence

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one’s own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one’s ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one’s subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Awareness, Self-Knowledge

The Self is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
—Carl Gustav Jung

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Thinking

It is the individual’s task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities… interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible….
—Carl Gustav Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
—Carl Gustav Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Creativity, To Be Born Everyday, Accomplishment

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
—Carl Gustav Jung

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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 Gustav Jung
Topics: Teachers, Teaching, Education

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Youth

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Conflict

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
—Carl Gustav Jung
Topics: Age, Aging

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