Carl Jung Quotes - Page 7

• The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

  Carl Jung

  Unfaithful, Good Marriage, License

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• It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

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  Famous Inspirational, Deeds, Who We Are

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.

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  Talking, Giving, Perspective

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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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  Children, Knowledge, Parenting

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (1951). “Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis”

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• Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

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  Animal, Sick, Culture

  "The Psychology of the Unconscious". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

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• Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

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  Wise, Heart, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

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  Passion, World, Tone

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

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  Achievement, Effort, Faith Hope Love

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

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  Men, Good Man, Whole

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

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  Fall, Jumping, Safety

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• Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

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  Inspirational, Cutting, Being Sad

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• It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

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  Spiritual, Art, Light

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• I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

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  Rooms, Wanted

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

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• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Change, Family

  Vom Werden der Pers"nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

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• I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

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  Men, Collective Unconscious, Patterns

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• The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.

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  War, Passion, Artist

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• Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

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  Heart, Warrior, Shadow Work

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• It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

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  Life, Men, Tragedy

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• The true leader is always led.

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  Leadership, Leader, True Leader

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

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  Spiritual, Dwelling, Fallen

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

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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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• The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

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  Men, Infinite, Related

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

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• Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

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  Inspirational, Men, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

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  Doe, Deceiving

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• Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

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  Happiness, Giving Up, Too Much

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