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Carl Jung Quotes about Imagination

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Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Carl Jung
Imagination, Fine, Ideals

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung
Creativity, Play, Imagination
Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.

Carl Jung
Death, Loss, Imagination

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung
Creativity, Men, Imagination
Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

Carl Jung
Imagination, Force

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

Carl Jung
Sleep, Imagination, Waking

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

Carl Jung
Children, Play, Imagination
Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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