Carl Jung Quotes - Page 25

• Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even

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  Real, Psychics, World

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• Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

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  People, Giving, Attention

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 125, 1933.

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• Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

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  Darkness, Vision, Enlightenment

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• Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

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  Astrology, Psychology, Recognition

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• It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

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  Men, History, Problem

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• I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

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  Nature, Miracle, Want

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

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• Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

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  Daughter, Mother, Backwards

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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• He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Looks

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• Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit.

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  Dream, Believe, Decision

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• Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it

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  Men, Personality, Doubt

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• Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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  Stars, Years, Astrology

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• Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

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  Men, Reflection, Circles

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

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• From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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  Time, Age, Alive

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

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• Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

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  Law, Faces, Fidelity

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• Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.

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  Spiritual, Men, Devil

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• Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.

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  Love, Queens, Kings

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• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Europe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Looks

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• So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.

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  Character, Men, Astrology

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• Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

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  Pool, Liverpool

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• Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.

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  Sleep, Envy, Humanity

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

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  Our World, Upheaval, World

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

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• How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

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  Summer, Dark, Winter

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.

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  Mother, Father, Fighting

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

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  Life, Acceptance, Important

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