Carl Jung Quotes - Page 19

• My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Understanding, Darkness

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

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• The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

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  Psychology, Body, Unions

  Factors Determining Human Behaviour

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• For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

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  Sleep, Men, Alchemist

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham (1970). “Psychology and alchemy”, Bollingen

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• Only the wounded physician heals.

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  Wisdom, Physicians, Heal

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

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• Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.

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  Mother, Running, Daughter

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1963). “Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

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• Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

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  Keys, Pursuit, Unconscious

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• The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

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  Inspirational, Two, Being Real

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

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• Summoned or not, the god will come.

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  Gods Will

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• Everyone is in love with his own ideas

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  Ideas

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.614, Routledge

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• Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

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  Psychics, Pregnant

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

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• Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

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  Men, Thinking, Historical

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

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• Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

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  Being Yourself, Soul, Desire

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• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

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  Evil, Darkness, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

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• We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

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  Psychics, Finals, Judgment

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

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• Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

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  Science, Understanding, Kind

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• Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

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  Brave, Shadow, Enough

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• Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

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  Voice, Demand, Concerts

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

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• Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

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  Happiness, Acceptance, Simple

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

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• A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

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  Men, Self, Evil

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• It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

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  Sad, Men, Cynical

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

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• The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.

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  Men, Psychics, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.72, Routledge

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• In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!

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  Giving Up, Men, Ideas

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

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• I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

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  Disbelief, Cautious, Be Cautious

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• While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

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  Healing, Health, Ego

  "Alchemical studies".

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• What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

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  Children, Psychics, Parent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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