Carl Jung Quotes

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I know I have pretty good instincts.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

I've got good intuition.

It's good to be intuitive.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.