Carl Jung Quotes - Page 33

• It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Decision, Instigators

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.31, Routledge

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• It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.

  Carl Jung

  Knowledge, Numbers, Psychology

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 57, 1933.

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• There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

  Carl Jung

  Situations In Life, Psychics, Psychology

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• On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Son, Opposites, Evil

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• No concept is a carrier of life.

  Carl Jung

  Carrier, Concepts

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• Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Differences

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• We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Lying, People

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• Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Unity, World

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• Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Teaching, Men

  "Liber Novus".

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• I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophical, Views, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Writing, Fate

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

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• All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

  Carl Jung

  Symbolism, Discovery, Psychics

  "The Integration of the Personality". Book by Carl Gustav Jung, p. 72, 1939.

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• Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They say it is light energy, perhaps electricity, they are not quite informed. At all events the vibrations that could influence us have never been seen, so it remains just a word.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Light, Astrology

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• Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

  Carl Jung

  Female, Unconscious, Seems

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• No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

  Carl Jung

  Language, Interpretation, Hypothetical

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 14, 1933.

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• The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Years, Two

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• I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

  Carl Jung

  Sweet, Turkeys, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The psychogenesis of mental disease”

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• It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Reality, Illumination

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• The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Circles, Goal

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation. Christ, the son begotten by God, is the first-born who is succeeded by an ever-increasing number of younger brothers and sisters. There are, however, neither begotten by the Holy Ghost nor born of a virgin. . . . Their lowly origin (possibly from the mammals) does not prevent them from entering into a close kinship with God as their father and Christ as their brother.

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  Brother, Children, Father

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• Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

  Carl Jung

  Sound, Psychological, Metaphysical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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