“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 · Wisdom quote

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 quote card
Psychiatrist & Psychoanalyst · 1875 – 1961

Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. His concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes and introversion and extraversion remain influential in psychology and culture.

More quotes by Carl Jung · Browse all quotes on QuotePlace

More like this

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Carl Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Carl Jung
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. — Carl Jung
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
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. — Carl Jung
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.
Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct. — Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.
Carl Jung