Carl Jung Quotes - Page 16

• Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

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  Home, Animal, Men

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• Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

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  Artist, Soul, Age

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, www.avclub.com. 1962.

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• The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

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  Nature, People, Tree

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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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• Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

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  Two, Mystery, Life Is

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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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• The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.

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  Men, Light, Order

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “Collected Works: Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

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  Dream, Understood, Remains

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

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  Men, Europe, Shapes

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• Without freedom there can be no morality.

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  Freedom, Morality, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

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  Needs, Spirit, Language

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

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  Psychics, Creative, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.220, Psychology Press

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• All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

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  Powerful, Ideas, Most Powerful

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

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• Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

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  Dream, Night, Forgotten

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• The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

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  Attitude, Intellectual, Monsters

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

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• We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

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  Wise, Truth, Philosophy

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• The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

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  Psychology, Individual, Mass

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

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  Life, Farewell, Men

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

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• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

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  Men, Tasks, Belief

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

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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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• Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

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  Men, Friendly, Taste

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

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• Simple things are always the most difficult.

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  Simple, Difficult, Simple Things

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

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