Carl Jung Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

  Carl Jung

  Second Chance, Thoughtful, Shrinking

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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

  Carl Jung

  Hands, Goal, Purpose

• Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Justice, Police

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Collective Unconscious

  "Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

• The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Purpose, Realizing

• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Men, Light

• The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Purpose, Serious

• The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Years, Two

• I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Views, Path

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.73, Courier Corporation

• The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Spiritual, Self

• Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Believe, Decision

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