Carl Jung Individual Quotations

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

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. . . .

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.