Carl Jung Quotes - Page 19

• Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Brave, Shadow, Enough

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• Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

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  Spiritual, Impact, People

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• Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

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  Dream, Father, Thinking

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• I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

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  Animal, Men, Tree

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

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• There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes

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  Loss, Men, Emotional

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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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• 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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• The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

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  Astrology, Facts, Coincidence

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• One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

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  Yoke, Oneself

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• I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

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  Adventure, Thinking, People

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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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• Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

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  Use, Knows, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

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  Fate, Men, Psychology

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

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• To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

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  Dream, Nature, Deceiving

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

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• Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

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  Men, Reflection, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

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  Being Yourself, Soul, Desire

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• Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.

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  Memories, Mean, Personality

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• Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

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  Sleep, Imagination, Waking

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• The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

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  Light, Consciousness, Longing

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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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• There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

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  Strong, Mean, Son

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• In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

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  Inspirational, Knows, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

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  Psychics, Community, Secret

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

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  Art, Kind, Instruments

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.173, Psychology Press

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• Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

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  Fall, Justice, Police

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

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