Memories Dreams Reflections Quotes - Page 4

• Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Average, Voice

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• I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Finding The One, Outlook On Life

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• An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Heart, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Thoughtful, Play

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

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• I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

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• The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

  Carl Jung

  Achievement, Growth, Mind

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 340, 1928.

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• Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Fighting, Superstitions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Understanding, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.231, Psychology Press

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• It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

  Carl Jung

  Sad, Men, Cynical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

  Carl Jung

  Yoga, Exercise, Order

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. CW 12, par. 126, p. 99, 1952.

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• Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Limits, Consciousness

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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• The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Men, Psychics

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 185, 1928.

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• Without freedom there can be no morality.

  Carl Jung

  Freedom, Morality

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• The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.

  Carl Jung

  Years, Important, Details

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• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

  Carl Jung

  Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

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• I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Giving, May

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

  Carl Jung

  Half, Transformation, Mark

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• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  Carl Jung

  Hurt, Wine, Science

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• God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Want, Fallen

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• Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

  Carl Jung

  Book, Thoughtful, Blood

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Feminine, Animus

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• You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Giving, Return

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.46, Routledge

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Crowds, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.10, Routledge

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• The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Doors

  "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man" (1933)

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