Carl Jung Quotes - Page 29

• If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, People, Rooms

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

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• No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Destiny, Honor

  Interview with H. R. Knickerbocker in 1939. "A Life of Jung". Book by Ronald Hayman, p. 360, 2002.

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• We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Moving, Independence

  "The Collected Works of C. G. Jung".

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• Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

  Carl Jung

  Fun, Creative, Fantasy

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• The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychology, Depth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (2002). “Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis”, p.109, Psychology Press

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• Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

  Carl Jung

  Fear, Understanding, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Collective Unconscious

  "Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

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• What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Kind, Archetype

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Fighting, Superstitions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

  Carl Jung

  Wish, Figures, Unconscious

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

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• My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

  Carl Jung

  Might, Banality, Stills

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

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• The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

  Carl Jung

  Artist, Conjuring, Yearning

  Carl Gustav Jung (1978). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The spirit in man, art, and literature”

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• The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Self, Medicine

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• I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Optimistic, Men

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, p. 14, archive.org. 1963.

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• His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

  Carl Jung

  Community, Finals, World

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.625, Routledge

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• The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Cinema, Stories

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.224, Psychology Press

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• I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

  Carl Jung

  Three, Life Is, This Life

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

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Men, Light

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• I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Men, Facts

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• It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Reality, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.110, Princeton University Press

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• It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Soul, Vision

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• The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

  Carl Jung

  Half, Transformation, Mark

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• Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

  Carl Jung

  Technology, Doors, Hands

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

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• That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

  Carl Jung

  Substitutes, Incapacity, Objects

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.193, Courier Corporation

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• For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Order, Individuality

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.13, Routledge

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