Carl Jung Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

  Carl Jung

  Religion, Defense

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

  Carl Jung

  Self, Growth, Age

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Cutting, Being Sad

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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

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Giving Up, Too Much

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Collective Unconscious, Patterns

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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.

  Carl Jung

  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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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Passion, Thoughtful

  Errinerungen, Tr"ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962) ch. 9

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

  Carl Jung

  Rooms, Wanted

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

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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.

  Carl Jung

  God, Men, Soul

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

  Carl Jung

  Goes On, Able, Sometimes

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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

  Carl Jung

  Passion, World, Tone

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• One must be able to let things happen.

  Carl Jung

  Able, Happens, Things Happen

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

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• We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

  Carl Jung

  Mistake, Errors, Christ

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

  Carl Jung

  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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• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

  Carl Jung

  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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• People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, People, Mind

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• People cannot stand too much Reality.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, People, Too Much

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• Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

  Carl Jung

  Discovery, Security, Certitude

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Talking, Giving, Perspective

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• Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Doe, Prejudice

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• Only the wounded physician heals.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Physicians, Heal

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

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