Carl Jung Quotes - Page 10

• Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Individuality, Resistance

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.43, Routledge

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Leadership, Fun

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

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• The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Shadow Work, Intention, Individual

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

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychology, Events

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• But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

  Carl Jung

  Art, People, Life Is

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.113, Psychology Press

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• Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

  Carl Jung

  Giving

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• The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Astrology, Heaven

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

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• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Loving Life, Follow Your Heart

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• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  Carl Jung

  Moving, Thoughtful, Long Distance

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Would Be, Lunatic Asylums

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

  Carl Jung

  Covering, Brutality, Sentimental

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• Nothing is possible without love.

  Carl Jung

  Without Love

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• Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

  Carl Jung

  Devil

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• The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

  Carl Jung

  Mankind, Unconscious, Unwritten

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

  Carl Jung

  Drama, Moving, Heart

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.257, Psychology Press

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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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• My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Order, Astrology

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.78, Psychology Press

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Men, Law

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Expression, Greek

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

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• Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

  Carl Jung

  Eye, Personality, Serious

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• But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ifs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

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

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• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Nature, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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

  Carl Jung

  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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