Carl Jung Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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  Life And Love, Inspiration, Health

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

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  Goes On, Able, Sometimes

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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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• 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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• Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

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  Doe, Deceiving

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• Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

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  God, Men, Soul

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• The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

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  Feelings, Doubt, Uncertain

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.37, North Atlantic Books

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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?

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  Kindness, What If, Enemy

  "Psychology and religion: west and east".

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

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  Unfaithful, Good Marriage, License

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• Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

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  Meaningful, Connections, World

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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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• Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

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  Men, Sick, Modern

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• The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

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  Tension, Greater

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

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• Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

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  Being Happy, Meaningful, Two

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.90, Psychology Press

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• The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

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  Dream, Doe, Parables

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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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.

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  Marriage, Two, Fire

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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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• People cannot stand too much Reality.

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  Reality, People, Too Much

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• A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

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  Expectations, Personality, Energy

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• The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

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  Nature, Fear, Men

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• The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

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  Doctors, Physicians, Heal

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

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