Carl Jung Consciousness Quotations

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.

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

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.