Carl Jung Quotes - Page 24

• Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

  Carl Jung

  Ritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings”

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• Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

  Carl Jung

  Daughter, Mother, Backwards

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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• I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

  Carl Jung

  Soul, Would Be, Silent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiring, Angel, Something New

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• I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

  Carl Jung

  Bundles, Accomplished, Has Beens

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.

  Carl Jung

  Memories, Reality, People

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• I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Hands, Long

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• No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Destiny, Honor

  Interview with H. R. Knickerbocker in 1939. "A Life of Jung". Book by Ronald Hayman, p. 360, 2002.

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• We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

  Carl Jung

  Islamic, Drunk, Germany

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings”

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• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  Carl Jung

  Music, Reality, Noise

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Sight, Personality

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

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• ...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.

  Carl Jung

  Knowing, Self, Collective Unconscious

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• Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

  Carl Jung

  People, Giving, Attention

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 125, 1933.

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• Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Judging, Personality

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• A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

  Carl Jung

  Intelligent, Pilots, Guidance

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• If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

  Carl Jung

  Emotional, Psychosis, Sick

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Stupid, Men

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

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• What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Essentials

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.172, Psychology Press

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• I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Forever

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• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Needs, Belief

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• The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Organs, Access

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• Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

  Carl Jung

  Intellectual, Succeed, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• The sure path can only lead to death.

  Carl Jung

  Path, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Psychology, Doe

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

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• The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

  Carl Jung

  Father, Roots, Might

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

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