Carl Jung Quotes - Page 24

• The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Sight, Personality

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

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

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  Giving Up, Passion, Men

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself.

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  Order, Broken, Psychology

  "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious".

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• It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

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  Clergymen, Clergy, Force

  Modern Man in Search of a Soul Ch. 1

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• Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

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  Suffering, Problem, Psychotic

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• Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

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  Jesus, Real, Historical

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

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  Father, Roots, Might

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

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• Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.

  Carl Jung

  Kindness, People, Needs

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• It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

  Carl Jung

  Mistake, Thinking, Knowing

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• I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

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  Men, Thinking, Forever

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Law, Subtle

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

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• In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

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  Unique, Knowing, Becoming

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• We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

  Carl Jung

  Mysterious Things, World, Unexpected

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• An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

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  Firsts, Metaphor

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.157, Princeton University Press

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• As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Change, Waiting

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• Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

  Carl Jung

  Special, Disadvantages, Terrible

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life”

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• About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Neurosis, Emptiness

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

  Carl Jung

  Helping, Patient, Lost

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• How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

  Carl Jung

  Views, Emotion, Calm

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

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• Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

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  Intellectual, Succeed, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

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  Wise, Stupid, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

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  Teacher, Attitude, Personality

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

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• What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

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  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

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  People, Important, Well Known

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

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• The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Twilight, Doors

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.123, Princeton University Press

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