Carl Jung Quotes - Page 33

• We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

  Carl Jung

  Islam, Way, Muhammad

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• I don't believe. I know.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Knowledge, Don't Believe

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• Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Plato, Ideas

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• It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

  Carl Jung

  Church, Unorthodox, Function

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

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• Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

  Carl Jung

  Humorous, Philosophical, Mind

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.36, Routledge

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• Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

  Carl Jung

  Doctors, Medicine, Disease

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• I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

  Carl Jung

  Tasks, Answers, Might

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• I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

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  Philosophical, Views, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

  Carl Jung

  Symbolism, Discovery, Psychics

  "The Integration of the Personality". Book by Carl Gustav Jung, p. 72, 1939.

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• The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Circles, Goal

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They say it is light energy, perhaps electricity, they are not quite informed. At all events the vibrations that could influence us have never been seen, so it remains just a word.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Light, Astrology

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• Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

  Carl Jung

  Female, Unconscious, Seems

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• The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Museums, Brain

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

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  Thinking, Giving, May

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.

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  Hands, Facts, Different

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

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• The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation. Christ, the son begotten by God, is the first-born who is succeeded by an ever-increasing number of younger brothers and sisters. There are, however, neither begotten by the Holy Ghost nor born of a virgin. . . . Their lowly origin (possibly from the mammals) does not prevent them from entering into a close kinship with God as their father and Christ as their brother.

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  Brother, Children, Father

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• The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.

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  Christian, Years, Two

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• It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Illumination

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• Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

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  Sound, Psychological, Metaphysical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

  Carl Jung

  Sweet, Turkeys, World

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

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• No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

  Carl Jung

  Language, Interpretation, Hypothetical

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 14, 1933.

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