Carl Jung Quotes - Page 29

• It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

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  Real, Essentials, World

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• Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

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  Technology, Doors, Hands

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

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• The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

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  Philosophy, Self, Medicine

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• The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

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  Dream, Reality, Yield

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

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  Brutality, Victim, Psychiatrist

  Carl Gustav Jung (1978). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The spirit in man, art, and literature”

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• From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

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  Psychology, Theatre, Viewpoints

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

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  Time, Wine, Years

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

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• Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

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  Religious, Encounters, Events

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• I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

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  Dream, Men, Facts

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• That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

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  Substitutes, Incapacity, Objects

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.193, Courier Corporation

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• What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

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  Christian, Kind, Archetype

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

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  People, Quality, Bad Qualities

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

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  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.112, Dell

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• Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

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  Real, Echoes, Essence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1956). “Symbols of transformation”

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

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  Fall, Men, House

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• A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

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  Thinking, Needs, Symbols

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• I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

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  Thinking, Views, Path

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

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  Dream, Sleep, Waking Life

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• Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.

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  Meaningful, Attitude, Men

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• The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

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  Ideas, Unity, Migration

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

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• People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

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  Adversity, Thinking, People

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• Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

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  Fear, Understanding, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

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  Artist, Conjuring, Yearning

  Carl Gustav Jung (1978). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The spirit in man, art, and literature”

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• Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

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  Dream, Order, Wish

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

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  Art, Sacrifice, Office

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.173, Psychology Press

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