Carl Jung Quotes - Page 13

• Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

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  Men, Office, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.145, Psychology Press

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• As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

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  Flower, Plant, Produce

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.82, Dell

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• Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

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  Inferiority, Reason, Inferiority Complex

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.

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  Running, Dream, Attitude

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.188, North Atlantic Books

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• The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

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  Real, Dark, Shadow Work

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• The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

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  World, Individual, Existence

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• Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

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  Running, Spiritual, Men

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• Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
  Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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  Life, Love Is, Shadow

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

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  Real, Character, Neurosis

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Ifs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

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  Soul, Needs, Slave

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• What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

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  Fate, Conscious, Memories Dreams Reflections

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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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• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

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  Spiritual, Nature, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.

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  Powerful, Greatness, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

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  Stupid, Numbers, Mind

  "The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings".

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• Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

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  Wise, Art, Believe

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• St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

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  Men, Great Men, St Thomas

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

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  Heart, Desire, Meaning Of Life

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• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

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  Summer, Thinking, Civilization

  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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• The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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  Life, Thoughtful, Heartache

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• Explore daily the will of God.

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  Gods Will

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

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• A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

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  Men, Miserable, Lost

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• The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.

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  Men, Light, Order

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “Collected Works: Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

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  Men, Modern, Force

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