Carl Jung Quotes - Page 4

• If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

  Carl Jung

  Want, Might, Matter

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• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Innovation, Energy

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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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.

  Carl Jung

  War, Men, Epidemics

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• A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Hatred, Quality

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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 shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Thoughtful, Shoes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Sin, Unconscious

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• Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Wisdom, Thinking

  Ernest Jones, Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman (1995). “Salt and the alchemical soul: three essays”, Spring Pubns

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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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• The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Resources, Ability

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• We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

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  Inspirational, Change, Accepting

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, People, Evil

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Next Steps, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

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  Inspirational, Human Life, Fulfilled

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• I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

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  Dark, Sides, Whole

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• One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Personality, Needs

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• Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Dirty, Sea

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• I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hate, People

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• Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Perception, Intuition

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• The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Political

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• Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit

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  Matter, Spirit

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.2, North Atlantic Books

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• Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

  Carl Jung

  Fashion, Voice, Doe

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• Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

  Carl Jung

  Medicine, Enchantment, Form

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.4, North Atlantic Books

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