Carl Jung Quotes - Page 28

• For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Men, Typical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.317, Princeton University Press

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• A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Sea, Culture

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• I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Symbolism, Analyzing

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• Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Energy

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• Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Moon, Space Flight

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• A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

  Carl Jung

  Patient, Nonsense, Select

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• I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

  Carl Jung

  Add, Disappointed, Memories Dreams Reflections

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

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• Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

  Carl Jung

  Finding Yourself, Becoming, Know Yourself

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• A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

  Carl Jung

  Intelligent, Pilots, Guidance

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• One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Thinking, Littles

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

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• The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

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  Death, Mean, Curves

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• When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Talking, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

  Carl Jung

  Time, Wine, Years

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

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• We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Real, Psychics

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• A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Hair

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• Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

  Carl Jung

  God, Real, Men

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• Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.

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  Meaningful, Attitude, Men

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• The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiring, Angel, Soul

  "Memories, dreams, reflections".

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• The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Consciousness, Spontaneous

  "The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams". Book by Carl Jung, p. 85, 1958.

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• To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Dark, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Evil, Half

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

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• The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

  Carl Jung

  Personality, Effort, Ego

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self”

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• We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Needs, Mythology

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• Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Order, Wish

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• A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Needs, Symbols

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