Carl Jung Quotes - Page 18

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

  Carl Jung

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

  Carl Jung

  Spirit, Sensuality, Gross

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

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

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Critical, Left

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.218, Psychology Press

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

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Consciousness, Influence

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

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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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• Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

  Carl Jung

  Fullness Of Life, Illness, Great Men

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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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• Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

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  Creative, Creation, Eternal

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

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• Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

  Carl Jung

  Movement

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• To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

  Carl Jung

  Views, Names, Upset

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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

  Carl Jung

  Men, Great Men, St Thomas

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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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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• Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Fear, Adventure

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• The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

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  Inspirational, Two, Being Real

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

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Special, Energy

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

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• The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Views, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.388, Princeton University Press

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• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Names, Chinese

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

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• The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Trying, Realizing

  Carl Gustav Jung (1938). “Psychology and Religion”

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• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Light

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• The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Body, Unions

  Factors Determining Human Behaviour

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• About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Neurosis, Emptiness

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

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  Imagination, Force

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• If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

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  Faith, Powerful, Soul

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• Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

  Carl Jung

  Clients, Therapy

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Science, Understanding, Kind

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