Carl Jung Quotes - Page 16

• You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

  Carl Jung

  Innovation, Influence, Ifs

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

  Carl Jung

  Long, Blight, Antichrist

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

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• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

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

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• We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Expression, Greek

  "The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams". Book by Carl Jung, p. 110, 1958.

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• However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Passion, People

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.68, Psychology Press

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• The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

  Carl Jung

  Intelligent, Men, Illusion

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

  Carl Jung

  Thank God

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• But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Lying, Afternoon

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Magic is the science of the jungle.

  Carl Jung

  Magic, Jungle

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.138, Psychology Press

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• Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

  Carl Jung

  Home, Doe, World

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.45, North Atlantic Books

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• There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Would Be, Lunatic Asylums

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

  Carl Jung

  Movement

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• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Tasks, Belief

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

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• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  Carl Jung

  Hiking, Hands, Progress

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Fullness Of Life, Views

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• Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

  Carl Jung

  World, Consciousness, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “The Undiscovered Self”

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• Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

  Carl Jung

  Artist, Soul, Age

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, www.avclub.com. 1962.

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Nature, People, Tree

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• Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

  Carl Jung

  Sky, Ego, Earth

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “Answer to Job”

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• Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

  Carl Jung

  Perception, Intuition, Unconscious

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• Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

  Carl Jung

  Two, Mystery, Life Is

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• The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Intellectual, Monsters

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Justice, Police

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

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• Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

  Carl Jung

  Farewell, Heart, Psychology

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• Without freedom there can be no morality.

  Carl Jung

  Freedom, Morality, Memories Dreams Reflections

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