Carl Jung Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Believe, Decision

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• Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Energy

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• The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

  Carl Jung

  Soul, Done, Vengeance

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Historical, Conservative, Creation

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

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

  Carl Jung

  People, Wrong Answers, Neurotic

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

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• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

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  Life, Acceptance, Important

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

  Carl Jung

  Our World, Upheaval, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Plato, Ideas

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• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Spiritual, Europe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

  Carl Jung

  Genius, Moments, Mankind

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.255, Princeton University Press

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• We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Real, Psychics

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• In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

  Carl Jung

  Men, Way, Greatest Man

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

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• The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

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  Art, Creativity, Giving

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• No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Freedom, Understanding, Limits

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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• When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Facts, Individual

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• Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Men, Devil

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• He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Dream, Looks

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Add, Disappointed, Memories Dreams Reflections

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

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• All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, Speaks Out, Tasks

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• The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Hands, Collective Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark" ... In some astonishment I asked him, "A bulwark-against what?" To which he replied, "Against the black tide of mud"-and here he hesitated for a moment, then added of occultism.

  Carl Jung

  Science, Promise, Black

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

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• I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, History

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• One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

  Carl Jung

  Culture, Common, Speak

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