Carl Jung Quotes - Page 15

• Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

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  Children, Men, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

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  Men, Color, Psychics

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• The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

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  Inspirational, Objectivity, Capacity

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

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  Land, Astrology, Worry

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• Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

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  Running, Spiritual, Men

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• Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

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  Creative, Creative Power

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

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  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

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  Fate, Conscious

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• Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

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  Structure, Accord, Happens

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

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• The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

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  Mind, Mammals, Acorns

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.105, Dell

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• One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.

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  Powerful, Greatness, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

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  Happiness, Acceptance, Simple

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

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  Individuality, Doe, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.

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  Running, Dream, Attitude

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.188, North Atlantic Books

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• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

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  Hurt, Wine, Science

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• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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  Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

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• Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

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  Inferiority, Reason, Inferiority Complex

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

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  Light, Creative, Steps

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

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  Flower, Plant, Produce

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.82, Dell

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• There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.

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  Men, Thinking, Historical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

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  Home, Doe, World

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.45, North Atlantic Books

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• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

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  Truth, Mistake, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

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  Music, Silence, Sound

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