Carl Jung Quotes - Page 22

• An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

  Carl Jung

  Firsts, Metaphor

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.157, Princeton University Press

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• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  Carl Jung

  Sad, Discrepancies Between, Quality

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

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• The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Doors

  "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man" (1933)

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• In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

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  Development, Consciousness, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.272, Princeton University Press

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• It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

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  Men, History, Problem

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• With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

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  Art, Eye, Light

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• In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

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  Religious, Years, Religion

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• Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.

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  Rivers, Water Of Life, May

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

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  Tragedy, Body, Want

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• I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

  Carl Jung

  Stupid, Numbers, Mind

  "The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings".

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself.

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  Order, Broken, Psychology

  "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious".

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• The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

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  Lying, Purpose, Serious

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• One cannot live without inconsistency.

  Carl Jung

  Inconsistency

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• That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Meditation, Consciousness

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• Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

  Carl Jung

  Pieces, Might, Emotion

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

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• To make what fate intends for me my own intention

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  Fate, Intention, My Own

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• I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

  Carl Jung

  Foundation, Born, Existence

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

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• No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Disappear, Intensity

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

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• For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Men, Alchemist

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham (1970). “Psychology and alchemy”, Bollingen

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• The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

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  Dream, Mind, Important

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

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  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Mind, Blind

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

  Carl Jung

  Acceptance, Outlook On Life, Essence

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

  Carl Jung

  Environmental, World, Machines

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.122, North Atlantic Books

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• The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Failure, Responsibility

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

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