Carl Jung Quotes

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

I think it's vital that we be critical of the things that we love.

He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life to see how you're doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend. He told me that he talked to himself all the time, and that it helped him to grow stronger and better everyday.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

You have, which is a rare thing, the ability and the responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself. To at least give it the floor. Because it is the key, not only to consciousness, but to real growth.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy, whether you continue the process by walking down the street thinking about things or whether you continue the process, as I do, by writing about them.

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.

I see myself as a professional feeler.