Carl Jung Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

  Carl Jung

  Tired, Needs, Goes On

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• When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wall, Positive Thinking

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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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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Reason

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Symbols of transformation: an analysis of the prelude to a case of schizophrenia”

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• Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

  Carl Jung

  Miracle, Soul, Theory

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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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• 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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  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  Carl Jung

  Funny, Depression, Witty

  Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

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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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• Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Stupid, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Political

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• It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

  Carl Jung

  Feet, Lazy, Individuality

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

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fate

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

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Understood, Happens

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• I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

  Carl Jung

  Karma, Children, Fate

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• Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most
  we can hope for is excellence.

  Carl Jung

  Perfection, Excellence

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• Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Thinking, Feelings

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• An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

  Carl Jung

  Learning, Past, Drawing

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

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

  Carl Jung

  Enemy, Needs

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