Carl Jung Quotes

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

At times I think and at times I am.

I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

I move, therefore I am.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

I am, therefore I'll think.

How strange it is to be anything at all.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

I am all that there is of the most real.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

I desire therefore I exist.