Carl Jung Quotes

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother? The bother is because we have no other way of speaking about the Absolute. We need forms and images. Without them we have no way of relating to the Divine. Symbol and image create a universal spiritual language. It's the language the soul understands.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.