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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• All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

  Carl Jung

  Doubt, Repressed, Fanaticism

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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.

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  Love, Hate, People

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

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

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Understood, Happens

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

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  Healing, Remember, Please

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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.

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  Inspirational, Wall, Positive Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Children, Childhood

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

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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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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Fighting, Self Confidence

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

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

  Carl Jung

  Enemy, Needs

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

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  Men, Evil, World

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

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

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  Inspirational, Men, Reason

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

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

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  Fear, Growth, Next

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• Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.

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  Twelve, Experts, Rooms

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• Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

  Carl Jung

  Marriage, Two, Fire

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