Carl Jung Conscious Quotations

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

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

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.

The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

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

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

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 longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

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.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.