Carl Jung Quotes - Page 26

• Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Mean, Light

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

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• How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

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  Summer, Dark, Winter

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

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  Nature, Miracle, Want

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

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• Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Attitude, Personality

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

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• It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Denial, Culture

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.98, Psychology Press

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• Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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  Stars, Years, Astrology

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• So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.

  Carl Jung

  Character, Men, Astrology

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

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  Lying, Law, Subtle

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

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• Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

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  Special, Disadvantages, Terrible

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life”

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• From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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  Time, Age, Alive

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

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  Law, Faces, Fidelity

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• Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

  Carl Jung

  People, Important, Well Known

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

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• About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

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  Suffering, Neurosis, Emptiness

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

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  Answers, Limits, Life Is

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

  Carl Jung

  Western Culture, Tasks, Culture

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• Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Men, Worst Enemy

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

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  Expression, Self, Goal

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.169, Routledge

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• My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

  Carl Jung

  Helping, Patient, Lost

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• The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

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  Unique, Self, Essence

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Looks

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• Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.

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  Two, Psychology, Different

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychics, Psychology

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• Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit.

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  Dream, Believe, Decision

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• In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

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  World, Kind, Earnestness

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.33, North Atlantic Books

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• Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

  Carl Jung

  Goal, Psychology, Excellence

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

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