Carl Jung Quotes - Page 3

• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

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  War, Men, Epidemics

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• Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

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  Real, Feelings, Painful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.335, Princeton University Press

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• Invited or not, God is present.

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  Invited

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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. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

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  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

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  Inspirational, Roots, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

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  Half, Problem, Solutions

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Love Yourself

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• Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

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  Simple, Next Steps, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• You always become the thing you fight the most.

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  Fighting

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• That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

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  Inspirational, Fate

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• Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.

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  Inspirational, Fighting, Self Confidence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

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  Discovery, Security, Certitude

  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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• The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

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  Pain, Real, Night

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.110, Dell

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• You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

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  Innovation, Influence, Ifs

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

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  Opportunity, Consciousness, Conflict

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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

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  Leadership, Sexy, Thoughtful

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• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

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  Opposites, Names, Chinese

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

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• In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

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  Children, Personality, Adults

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• Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Intuition

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• Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

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  Imagination, Fine, Ideals

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• The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

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  Depth, Ascent, Descent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.

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  War, Passion, Artist

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• I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.

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  Mother, Father, Men

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

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