Carl Jung Quotes - Page 26

• The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

  Carl Jung

  Expression, Self, Goal

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.169, Routledge

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• The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

  Carl Jung

  Hero, Creative, Legendary

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• I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Hell

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• Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.

  Carl Jung

  Two, Psychology, Different

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

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• Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

  Carl Jung

  Psychological, Type, Static

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• The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

  Carl Jung

  Unique, Self, Essence

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.

  Carl Jung

  Jesus, Reality, Order

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

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• The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Inward, Looks

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• So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Suffering, Progress

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Mean, Light

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

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• Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Support, Mind

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• Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

  Carl Jung

  Genius, Moments, Mankind

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.255, Princeton University Press

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• Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Historical, Conservative, Creation

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

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• The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Light, Air

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Facts, Individual

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• The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Essentials, World

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• In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Feelings, Risk

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The psychogenesis of mental disease”

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• The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychics, Psychology

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• Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

  Carl Jung

  World, Kind, Earnestness

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.33, North Atlantic Books

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• So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Fate, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

  Carl Jung

  Goal, Psychology, Excellence

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

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• The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Reality, Yield

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Judging, Personality

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