Carl Jung Quotes - Page 8

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

  Carl Jung

  Nature, Fear, Men

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• It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Evil, Wickedness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.

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  Real, Simple, Color

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

  Carl Jung

  Condemnation, Heal, Commendation

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• How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Psychology, Shadow

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Psychics

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

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

  Carl Jung

  Unfaithful, Good Marriage, License

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• Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Warrior, Shadow Work

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• If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Reality, Men

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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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• Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Broken, Psychology

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

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• Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

  Carl Jung

  Giving

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• True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.

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  Art, Creative, Miracle

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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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• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Fun, Truth

  "Psychological Types: Or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Stupidity

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Heart, Men

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

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• Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

  Carl Jung

  Opinion, Humans, Human Beings

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1974). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of opposites in alchemy”

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• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Loving Life, Follow Your Heart

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• To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

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  Reflection, Discovery, Profound

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

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• But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

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  Art, People, Life Is

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.113, Psychology Press

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• We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

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  Drama, Moving, Heart

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.257, Psychology Press

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