Carl Jung Quotes

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

All experience is subjective.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Reality is mind-made.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

What you believe you experience.

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .

The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.