Carl Jung Quotes - Page 14

• Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

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  Real, Writing, Silence

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• Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

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  Covering, Brutality, Sentimental

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• Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

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  Dream

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• I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.

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  Real, Believe, Safety

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

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  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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• What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

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  Integrity, Fate, Spirituality

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• When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

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  Feet, Naked, Earth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

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  Intellect, Totality

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.119, Psychology Press

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• When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

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  Opposites, Doe, Half

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• Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

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  Farewell, Heart, Psychology

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• All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

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  Art, Collectives, Unconsciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

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  Children, Educational, Suffering

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

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  Victory, Germs, Defeat

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

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• The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

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  Inspirational, Compromise, Easier

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

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  Inspiration, Men, Mirrors

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• The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

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  Fate, Destiny, Detours

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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• The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

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  Real, Character, Neurosis

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

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  Light, Shadow, Shows

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• You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

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  Soul, Needs, Slave

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• Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

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  Animal, Alive

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• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

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  Circles, Resistance, Sun

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

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• The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

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  Understanding, Mind, Intellectual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.76, Psychology Press

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• Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.

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  Mother, Running, Daughter

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1963). “Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

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• We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.

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  Doubt, Want, Thorough

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• Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

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  Healing, Depth, Height

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