Carl Jung Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

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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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• Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

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  Dream, Facts

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

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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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• Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

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  Fall, Unity, Pieces

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.186, North Atlantic Books

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• Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

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  World, Consciousness, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “The Undiscovered Self”

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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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• But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

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  Dark, Understanding, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.231, Psychology Press

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• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

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  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• Summoned or not, the god will come.

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  Gods Will

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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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• Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

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  Great Men, Conscious And Unconscious

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• The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

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  Struggle, Years, Collective Unconscious

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Chapter 5, p. 271, 1921.

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

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  Fate, Conscious, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

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  Long, Blight, Antichrist

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

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  Spiritual, People, Function

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• Even a lie is a psychic fact.

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  Lying, Psychics, Facts

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• New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

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  Ideas, Space, Enemy

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• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

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  Brain, Hundred, Bigs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• Everyone is in love with his own ideas

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  Ideas

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.614, Routledge

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• I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

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  Night, Years, 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 judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

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  Half, Judgment, Intellect

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

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  Psychology, Terror, Refuge

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.209, Psychology Press

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