# Quote — Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self

> It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.

- Author: [Carl Jung](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung.md)
- Book: [The Undiscovered Self](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/the-undiscovered-self.md)
- Page: 45
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/the-undiscovered-self/it-is-astounding

## More from this book

> Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.

p. 23 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/the-undiscovered-self/just-as-man.md)

> Reason alone does not suffice.

p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/the-undiscovered-self/reason-alone-does.md)

> The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/the-undiscovered-self/the-bigger-the.md)