Carl Jung Quotes

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I describe myself as a human being.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

You cannot analyse your personality. It is like trying to understand the essential characteristics of a person.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

In the end, I know my qualities and I know I'm not Messi. I'm Bojan.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw . . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same.You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

No man knows himself as an original.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

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.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.