Carl Jung Quotes

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love has just got to gobble the other, bones and all, crunch. I don't want to do that. I sure don't want it done to me!

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.