Carl Jung Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

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  Astrology, Psychology, Recognition

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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.

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  Jesus, Reality, Order

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

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• The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.

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  Dream, Twilight, Doors

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.123, Princeton University Press

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• For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

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  Spiritual, Men, Typical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.317, Princeton University Press

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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.

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  Goal, Psychology, Excellence

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

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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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• 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.

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  Stars, Mean, Light

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

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• If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

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  Thinking, People, Rooms

  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.

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  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.

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  Men, Denial, Culture

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

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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.

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  Character, Men, Astrology

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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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• 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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• I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

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  Add, Disappointed, Memories Dreams Reflections

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

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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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• It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

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  Suicide, Real, Self

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• My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

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  Might, Banality, Stills

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

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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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• Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

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  Determination, Successful, Self

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• The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.

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  Dream, Inward, Looks

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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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• 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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• So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

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  Inspirational, Suffering, Progress

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

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  God, Real, Men

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