Carl Jung Quotes - Page 18

• An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Heart, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Purpose, Serious

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• Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

  Carl Jung

  Evil, Doe, Bigs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Finding The One, Outlook On Life

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• The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychology, Ego

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• The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

  Carl Jung

  Collective Unconscious, World, Spirit

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Names, Chinese

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

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• I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Night, Years, Psychics

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• Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Thinking, Soul

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• All neurotics seek the religious

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Religion, Psychiatry

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• If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

  Carl Jung

  Faith, Powerful, Soul

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• The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

  Carl Jung

  Struggle, Years, Collective Unconscious

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Chapter 5, p. 271, 1921.

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• Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

  Carl Jung

  Spirit, Sensuality, Gross

  "The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality".

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• If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

  Carl Jung

  Simplicity, Development, Fantasy

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Childhood, Individual, Disposition

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

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• The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.

  Carl Jung

  Years, Important, Details

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• Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

  Carl Jung

  Pieces, Might, Emotion

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

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

  Carl Jung

  Half, Judgment, Intellect

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

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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.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Pain, Light

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• Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Impact, People

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• Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

  Carl Jung

  Environmental, World, Machines

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.122, North Atlantic Books

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• The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Doors

  "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man" (1933)

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• The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Afternoon, Human Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.112, Psychology Press

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• The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Consciousness, Longing

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