Carl Jung Quotes - Page 20

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

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Imagination, Waking

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

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  Keys, Pursuit, Unconscious

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

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  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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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Justice, Police

  Carl Gustav Jung (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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Reflection, Circles

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

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

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  Simplicity, Development, Fantasy

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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.

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  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.

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  Religious, Finding The One, Outlook On Life

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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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• 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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• Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

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  Meaningful, Crazy, Life Is

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

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  Responsibility, Opposites, Evil

  "The Undiscovered Self".

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• The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

  Carl Jung

  Development, Psychological, Natural

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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.

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  Self, Psychology, Ego

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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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