# Quote — Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self

> Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

- 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: 48
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/the-undiscovered-self/without-consciousness-there

## 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)