660 Quotes by C.G. Jung

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

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.

You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

The shadow that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt - laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our annual ancestors.

The artist's relative lack of adaptation turns out to his advantage; it enables him to follow his own yearnings far from the beaten path and to discover what it is that would meet the unconscious needs of his age.

The ego, the subject of consciousness, comes into existence as a complex quantity which is constituted partly by the inherited disposition and partly by unconsciously acquired impressions and their attendant phenomena.

Since it is the point of reference for the field of consciousness, the ego is the subject of all successful attempts at adaptation so far as these are achieved by the will.

In the unconscious, one cannot judge because of the great darkness there, but in the conscious there is light, and so there are differences; there is a criterion in consciousness which gives one a measure by which to judge.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.