Carl Jung Quotes - Page 27

• It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

  Carl Jung

  Western Culture, Tasks, Culture

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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

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  Inspirational, Men, Personality

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

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• Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

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  God, Men, Self

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• One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

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  Culture, Common, Speak

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• Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

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  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.112, Dell

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• From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

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  Psychology, Theatre, Viewpoints

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

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  Writing, Speaks Out, Tasks

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• The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

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  Book, Hands, Collective Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

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  Men, Denial, Culture

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.98, Psychology Press

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• In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

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  Men, Way, Greatest Man

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

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• I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

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  Believe, Men, History

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• Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

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  Art, Creativity, Giving

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• I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

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  Thinking, Views, Path

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

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  Ideas, Unity, Migration

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

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• Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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  Marriage, Pain, Doe

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 193, 1928.

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• No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

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  Freedom, Understanding, Limits

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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• Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

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  Determination, Successful, Self

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• In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

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  Dream, Sleep, Waking Life

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

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  People, Wrong Answers, Neurotic

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

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• Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

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  Religious, Encounters, Events

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• Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

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  Real, Echoes, Essence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1956). “Symbols of transformation”

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• We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

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  People, Quality, Bad Qualities

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

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  Sea, Looking Forward, Infinite

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

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• It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Real, Self

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• I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

  Carl Jung

  Powerful, Discovery, Opposites

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.489, Routledge

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