Carl Jung Quotes - Page 5

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

  Carl Jung

  Mind, Unhappy, Ifs

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

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

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  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Dream, Dirty, Sea

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

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  Meaningful, Children, Lying

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

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  Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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

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  Light, Self, Personality

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

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

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  Enemy, Needs

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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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• 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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• Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

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  Understanding, Understood, Happens

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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.

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  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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• What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.

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  Death, Loss, Imagination

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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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