Carl Jung Quotes - Page 17

• We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

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  Wise, Truth, Philosophy

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• The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature.

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  Angel, Men, Hands

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.263, Princeton University Press

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• Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.

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  Memories, Mean, Personality

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• I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

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  Animal, Men, Tree

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

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• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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  Creativity, Men, Imagination

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

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• Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

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  Thinking, Consciousness, Influence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

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  Adventure, Thinking, People

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• Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

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  Running, Fear, Adventure

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• Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

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  Imagination, Force

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• My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

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  Self, Each Day, Pearls

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• Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

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  Practice, Self, Important

  "The Secret Of The Golden Flower". Book by Richard Wilhelm and Carl Jung, archive.org. 1931.

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• Simple things are always the most difficult.

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  Simple, Difficult, Simple Things

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

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  Victory, Germs, Defeat

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

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  Dream, Nature, Deceiving

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

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• There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

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  Strong, Mean, Son

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• Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

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  Fullness Of Life, Illness, Great Men

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• Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

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  Needs, Spirit, Language

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

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  Inspirational, Knows, Memories Dreams Reflections

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

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• There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

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  Ineptitude, Notorious, Difficult

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• The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

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  Gratitude, Sadness, Bitterness

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• It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

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  Dream, Noise, Consciousness

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• All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

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  Powerful, Ideas, Most Powerful

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

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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

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  Leadership, Uplifting, Relaxation

  "The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche".

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• The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

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  Men, Trying, Realizing

  Carl Gustav Jung (1938). “Psychology and Religion”

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• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

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  Hurt, Wine, Science

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