Carl Jung Quotes - Page 17

• If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

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  Dark, Opposites, Unions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

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• Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

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  Men, Color, Psychics

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• In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

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  Taken, Collective Unconscious, Astrology

  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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• 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.

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  Religious, Lying, Answers

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• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

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  Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

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

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• An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

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  Teacher, Heart, Understanding

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

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• Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

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  Movement

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• St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

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  Men, Great Men, St Thomas

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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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 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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• 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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• Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

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  Errors, Progress, Important

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Freud and psychoanalysis”

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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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• To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

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  Reality, Critical, Left

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.218, 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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• Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

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  Fullness Of Life, Illness, Great Men

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• The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

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  Intelligent, Men, Illusion

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

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  Fate, Conscious, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Soul

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• The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.

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  Angel, Half, Conflict

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• A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

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  Mean, Special, Energy

  Carl Gustav Jung (1933). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”

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• Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

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  Spirit, Sensuality, Gross

  "The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality".

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• Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

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  Thinking, Consciousness, Influence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

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  Science, Understanding, Kind

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• It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

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  Color, Giving, Mind

  "The structure and dynamics of the psyche".

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