Carl Jung Quotes - Page 15

• There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

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  Creativity, Men, Creative

  "Psychology and Poetry". Book by Carl Jung, June, 1930.

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• The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

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  Real, Dark, Shadow Work

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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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• Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

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  Men, Feminine, Animus

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• Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

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  Sky, Ego, Earth

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “Answer to Job”

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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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• The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

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  Secret, Too Much, Conscious

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• I do not believe...I know.

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  Believe, Knowledge, Knows

  Carl Gustav Jung (2011). “Interpretação psicológica do dogma da Trindade”, p.8, Editora Vozes Limitada

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• 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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• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

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  Pain, Collective Unconscious, Birth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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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.

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

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  Animal, Alive

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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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• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

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  Art, Lying, Mind

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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.

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  Beautiful, Scary, Solitude

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

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• The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

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  Art, Purpose, Realizing

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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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• Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

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  Men, Modern, Force

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• The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, Collective Unconscious

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

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• Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
  Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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  Life, Love Is, Shadow

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

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  Spring, Fullness Of Life, Views

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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

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  Leadership, Uplifting, Relaxation

  "The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche".

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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

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  Leadership, Sexy, Thoughtful

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• A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

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  Self, Expression, Psychological

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.304, Princeton University Press

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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