Carl Jung Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Needs, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Real, Men

  "Memories, dreams, reflections".

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• I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.

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  Taken, Self, Expression

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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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• 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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• This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

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  Dream, Actors, Creation

  "General Aspects of Dream Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

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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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• 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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• Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

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  Beautiful, Christian, Responsibility

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

  Carl Jung

  Evil, Doe, Bigs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Lying, Answers

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

  Carl Jung

  Doe, Individual, Myth

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

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• Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

  Carl Jung

  Perception, Intuition, Unconscious

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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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• Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Individuation, Wrapping

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• Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

  Carl Jung

  Use, Knows, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

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  Love, Happiness, Passion

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

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• But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Lying, Afternoon

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Miserable, Lost

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• I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Scary, Solitude

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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