Carl Jung Quotes - Page 12

• Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Ego, Evolution

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• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Business, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Events, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

  Carl Jung

  Innovation, Influence, Ifs

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Moon, Space Flight

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• The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Psychics, Intuition

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

  Carl Jung

  Freedom, Free Will, Ability

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Mother, Father, Fighting

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

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• Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiration, Listening, Essentials

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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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• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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  Second Chance, Thoughtful, Shrinking

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.

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  Healing, Humanity, Suffering

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• The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Creative

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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. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

  Carl Jung

  Distance, Men, Tragedy

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

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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. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.

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  Attitude, Real, Men

  "Memories, dreams, reflections".

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• Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Art, Believe

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• Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

  Carl Jung

  Covering, Brutality, Sentimental

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• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

  Carl Jung

  Summer, Thinking, Civilization

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.37, North Atlantic Books

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• The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

  Carl Jung

  World, Today, Causes

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• Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

  Carl Jung

  Victory, Germs, Defeat

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• Called or not, God is always there.

  Carl Jung

  God

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• ...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

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  Space, Doe, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

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  Doe, Individual, Myth

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

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• The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Doe, Parables

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

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• Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Individuation, Wrapping

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