Carl Jung Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

• The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Real, Men

  "Memories, dreams, reflections".

• The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

  Carl Jung

  Death, Mean, Curves

• When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

  Carl Jung

  Hands, Goal, Purpose

• What you resist persist.

  Carl Jung

  Goal, Persist

• ...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

  Carl Jung

  Goal, Groups, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

• It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Reality, Illumination

• Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

  Carl Jung

  Goal, Psychology, Excellence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

• The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Circles, Goal

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

• It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Real, Self

• A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

  Carl Jung

  Sight, Goal, Promise

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

• The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

  Carl Jung

  Expression, Self, Goal

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.169, Routledge

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