Carl Jung Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

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  Father, Roots, Might

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

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• The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

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  Hero, Creative, Legendary

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• The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

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  Dream, Mind, Doe

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. Paragraph 51, p. 46, 1952.

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• You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

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  Men, Giving, Return

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.46, Routledge

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• It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

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  Clergymen, Clergy, Force

  Modern Man in Search of a Soul Ch. 1

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• During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

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  Animal, Vivisection, Medical

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• What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

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

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• Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

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  Heart, Vision, Manage

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• Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.

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  Kindness, People, Needs

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• Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

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  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

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  Darkness, Vision, Enlightenment

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• How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

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  Views, Emotion, Calm

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

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• Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.

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  Sleep, Envy, Humanity

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

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  Life, Change, Waiting

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• In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

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  Unique, Knowing, Becoming

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• I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

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  Sea, Looking Forward, Infinite

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

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

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  Giving Up, Passion, Men

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• Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

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  Psychological, Type, Static

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• The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

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  Faith, Majority, Patient

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

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• We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

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  Mysterious Things, World, Unexpected

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• The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

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  Passion, Cinema, Stories

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.224, Psychology Press

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• Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.

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  Love, Queens, Kings

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• The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.

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  Men, Light, Air

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.

  Carl Jung

  Jesus, Reality, Order

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

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