Carl Jung Quotes - Page 5

• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  Carl Jung

  Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fear, People

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.169, North Atlantic Books

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• If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

  Carl Jung

  Mind, Unhappy, Ifs

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• If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hope, Respect

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Forgotten Things, Finding Yourself

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

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• I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Don't Believe, Knows

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fighting, Self Confidence

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

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• Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Tree, Sometimes

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

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• For better to come, good must stand aside.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Remember, Please

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• All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

  Carl Jung

  Doubt, Repressed, Fanaticism

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• Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Evil, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.210, Psychology Press

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• Dawn is born at midnight.

  Carl Jung

  Dawn, Midnight, Born

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• As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Children, Childhood

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

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• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  Carl Jung

  Health, Thoughtful, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life”

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• What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

  Carl Jung

  Meaningful, Children, Lying

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• Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Men

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

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• You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

  Carl Jung

  Live Life, Spirit, Moments

  Carl Gustav Jung, Claire Douglas (1997). “Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C.G. Jung”, p.760, Princeton University Press

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• Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Self, Personality

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• Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Our World, Cosmos

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.79, North Atlantic Books

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• The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

  Carl Jung

  Men, World, Thread

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• Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

  Carl Jung

  Enemy, Needs

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• When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

  Carl Jung

  Voice, People, Want

  "Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939". Book edited by James L. Jarrett, p. 30, 1988.

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• But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

  Carl Jung

  Kindness, What If, Enemy

  "Psychology and religion: west and east".

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• Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

  Carl Jung

  Fear, Growth, Next

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