Carl Jung Quotes - Page 6

• There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Psychics, Imperfection

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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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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• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Mean, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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

  Carl Jung

  Twelve, Experts, Rooms

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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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• It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

  Carl Jung

  Military, Greatest Fear, Causes

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• If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Jumping, Safety

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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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• The true leader is always led.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Leader, True Leader

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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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• Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

  Carl Jung

  Doe, Deceiving

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• Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Dwelling, Fallen

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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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• The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Growth, Age

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• Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Limits, Consciousness, Memories Dreams Reflections

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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• I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Good Man, Whole

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• Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

  Carl Jung

  Achievement, Effort, Faith Hope Love

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