Carl Jung Quotes - Page 10

• Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

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  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

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  Men, Infinite, Related

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

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• Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

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  Soul, Suffering, Neurosis

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• Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

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  Inspirational, Moon, Space Flight

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But 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 by the moral code.

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  Lying, Men, Law

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• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

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  Pain, Collective Unconscious, Birth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

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  Men, Expression, Greek

  "The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams". Book by Carl Jung, p. 110, 1958.

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

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  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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• I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

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  Fall, Hell

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• A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

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  Expectations, Personality, Energy

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• I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

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  Disbelief, Cautious, Be Cautious

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• What we lack is intensity of life.

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  Intensity

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

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• It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

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  Life, Men, Tragedy

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

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• Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

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  Nature, Essence, Alive

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

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• The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.

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  Mother, Father, Fighting

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Play, Imagination

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

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• Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
  Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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  Life, Love Is, Shadow

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

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  Inspiring, Inspiration, Emotional

  "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype". Lecture by Carl Jung, 1938.

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• ...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

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  Goal, Groups, Individual

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

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• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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  Love, Leadership, Fun

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

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  Religious, Thinking, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

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  Fate, Destiny, Consciousness

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• Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

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  Self, Psychology, Events

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• Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

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  Shadow Work, Intention, Individual

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• A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

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  Inspirational, Creative, Littles

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

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