Carl Jung Quotes

A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

I don't find myself intriguing.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.

To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.