Carl Jung Quotes - Page 23

• The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Views, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.388, Princeton University Press

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• ...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

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  Nymphs, Greek, Insane

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• I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Hands, Long

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• Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

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  Use, Knows, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

  Carl Jung

  Soul, Would Be, Silent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

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  Believe, Needs, Belief

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• During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

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  Animal, Vivisection, Medical

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• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

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  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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• Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

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  Dream, Father, Thinking

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• ...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.

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  Order, Smell, Differences

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• You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

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  Men, Giving, Return

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.46, Routledge

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• Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

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  Men, Levels, Conscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.128, Psychology Press

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• The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiring, Angel, Something New

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• By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

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  Mean, Psychology, Doe

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

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• The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

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  Development, Psychological, Natural

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• As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Two, People

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

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• It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

  Carl Jung

  Responsibility, Opposites, Evil

  "The Undiscovered Self".

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• The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

  Carl Jung

  Parenting, Parent, Tragedy

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• The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

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  Dream, Mind, Doe

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. Paragraph 51, p. 46, 1952.

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• The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

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  Men, Organs, Access

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• To make what fate intends for me my own intention

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  Fate, Intention, My Own

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• Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

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  Heart, Vision, Manage

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• I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

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  Bundles, Accomplished, Has Beens

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• ...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.

  Carl Jung

  Knowing, Self, Collective Unconscious

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• Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

  Carl Jung

  Creative, Creation, Eternal

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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