Carl Jung World Quotations

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

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

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return...

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

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.

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

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.

The soul is the immortal part of us. It recycles, over and over again from what I've seen, but it never dies. We're meant to strive beyond the physical world, not... not settle for it and only it...

Your heart always knows what's important. It always knows how to guide you. It's pure, and trustworthy--though it will never shout to be heard. it will never speak above a whisper. But if you learn how to heed it, how to hear it, you will never feel lost in the world.