Carl Jung Mind Quotations

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound . . . Everything is mediated through the mind.

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.