Carl Jung Quotes

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Symbols are important.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Being that can be understood is language.

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic .

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

Words are the small change of thought.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.