Top 100 Carl Jung Quotes
#1. Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.
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#2. And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
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#3. 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.
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#4. This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
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#5. Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
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#6. The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
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#8. It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind.
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#9. Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
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#10. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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#11. So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.
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#12. The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
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#13. The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
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#14. Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.
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#15. Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?
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#16. A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
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#17. To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
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#18. What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.
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#19. One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.
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#20. The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.
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#21. Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself
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#22. The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.
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#23. True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.
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#24. Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
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#25. Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
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#26. The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.
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#27. The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.
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#28. The sight of a child ... will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons - longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.
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#29. There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
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#30. It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
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#31. 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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#32. The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.
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#33. One must be able to let things happen.
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#34. It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
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#35. I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.
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#36. A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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#37. What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
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#38. Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego ...
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#39. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.
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#40. Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.
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#41. Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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#44. In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.
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#45. The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
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#46. Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
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#47. Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
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#48. The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.
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#49. There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
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#50. But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.
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#51. Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.
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#52. Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.
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#53. I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."
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#54. We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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#55. A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
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#56. Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact ... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.
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#57. The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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#58. Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
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#59. Colors express the main psychic functions of man.
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#60. In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man ... '
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#61. Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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#62. The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.
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#63. Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
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#64. To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
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#65. The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.
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#66. When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.
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#67. So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.
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#68. Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
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#69. Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.
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#70. Summoned or not, the god will come.
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#71. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
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#72. 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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#73. When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
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#74. 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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#75. The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
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#76. The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
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#77. Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.
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#78. The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
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#79. Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide
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#80. We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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#81. No language exists that cannot be misused ... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.
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#82. Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.
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#83. Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.
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#84. Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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#85. Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.
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#86. You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
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#87. We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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#88. Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
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#89. The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.
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#90. If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.
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#91. No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.
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#92. My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.
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#93. Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
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#94. Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth
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#95. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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#96. It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
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#97. The soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.
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#98. 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
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#99. How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
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#100. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
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