Carl Jung Quotes - Page 9

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

  Carl Jung

  Unfaithful, Good Marriage, License

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• Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiration, Listening, Essentials

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

  Carl Jung

  Religion, Defense

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• Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

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  Ego, Dull, Facts

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

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  Book, Tree, Sometimes

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

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• When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

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  Feet, Naked, Earth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

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  Inspiring, Inspiration, Emotional

  "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype". Lecture by Carl Jung, 1938.

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• Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

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  Understanding, Understood, Happens

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• Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

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  Real, Writing, Silence

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• No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

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  Religious, Thinking, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

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  Childhood, Individual, Disposition

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.82, Psychology Press

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• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

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  Love, Happiness, Passion

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

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  Real, Ego, Evolution

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• Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

  Carl Jung

  Miracle, Soul, Theory

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• The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

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  Nature, People, Tree

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• Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

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  Nature, Essence, Alive

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

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• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Light

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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

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  Dark, Psychology, Shadow

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• Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

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  Perception, Intuition, Unconscious

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• The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

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  Inspirational, Crowds, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.10, Routledge

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• Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

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  Eye, Personality, Serious

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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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Men, Law

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