Carl Jung Quotes - Page 8

• Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

  Carl Jung

  Religion, Defense

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• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

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  Moving, Thoughtful, Long Distance

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Sick, Culture

  "The Psychology of the Unconscious". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

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• ...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

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  Goal, Groups, Individual

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

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• Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

  Carl Jung

  Shadow Work, Intention, Individual

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

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

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• Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

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  Men, Individuality, Resistance

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.43, Routledge

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• The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

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  Self, Growth, Age

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• There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

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  Light, Psychics, Imperfection

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

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• The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Men, Psychics

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 185, 1928.

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• The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

  Carl Jung

  Doctors, Physicians, Heal

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

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• The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

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  Understanding, Mind, Intellectual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.76, Psychology Press

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• Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

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  Goes On, Able, Sometimes

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• I would rather be whole than good.

  Carl Jung

  Whole

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• The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

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  Men, Infinite, Related

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

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• One must be able to let things happen.

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  Able, Happens, Things Happen

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

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• Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

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  Structure, Accord, Happens

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

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• To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

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  Learning, Personality, Shock

  Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Foote (1976). “The visions seminars: from the complete notes of Mary Foote”

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• Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

  Carl Jung

  God, Men, Soul

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• Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Sick, Modern

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• There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

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  Spiritual, Needs, World

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• The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

  Carl Jung

  World, Unexpected, Incredibles

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

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• For better to come, good must stand aside.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

  Carl Jung

  Want, Might, Matter

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• Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

  Carl Jung

  Achievement, Effort, Faith Hope Love

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