Carl Jung Quotes About Myth

Quotes about: Myth

• The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

  Carl Jung

  Important, Myth, Asks

• Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

  Carl Jung

  Doe, Individual, Myth

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

• Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Forgotten

• The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Real, Taken

• ...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

  Carl Jung

  Nymphs, Greek, Insane

• One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

  Carl Jung

  Culture, Common, Speak

• We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Needs, Mythology

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