Carl Jung Quotes - Page 20

• The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

  Carl Jung

  Collective Unconscious, World, Spirit

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

  Carl Jung

  Meaningful, Crazy, Life Is

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.31, Princeton University Press

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Thoughtful, Play

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• Magic is the science of the jungle.

  Carl Jung

  Magic, Jungle

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.138, Psychology Press

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• Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

  Carl Jung

  Keys, Pursuit, Unconscious

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• It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

  Carl Jung

  Mistake, Thinking, Knowing

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• I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Finding The One, Outlook On Life

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• If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

  Carl Jung

  Simplicity, Development, Fantasy

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• However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Passion, People

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.68, Psychology Press

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Struggle, Years, Collective Unconscious

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

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• Everyone is in love with his own ideas

  Carl Jung

  Ideas

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

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• Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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  Heart, Roots, Secret Love

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• Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

  Carl Jung

  Victory, Germs, Defeat

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

  Carl Jung

  Responsibility, Opposites, Evil

  "The Undiscovered Self".

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• The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

  Carl Jung

  Childhood, Individual, Disposition

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.82, Psychology Press

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• I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

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  Disbelief, Cautious, Be Cautious

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• Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

  Carl Jung

  Shadow, World, Faces

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• The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychology, Ego

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• Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Pregnant

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

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• We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Real, Men

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• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  Carl Jung

  Hiking, Hands, Progress

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!

  Carl Jung

  Giving Up, Men, Ideas

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

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• The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Character, Childhood

  "The Theory of Psychoanalysis". Book by Carl Jung, 1915.

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• Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Historical

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

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• What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

  Carl Jung

  Children, Psychics, Parent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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