C G Jung Quotes

#1. H.P. Lovecraft is for fantasy fiction what C.G. Jung is for analytical psychology.

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#2. You are what you do, not what you say you'll do." C.G. Jung

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#3. He was the man I mentioned who was obsessed by the idea that he had cancer, although X-rays had proved to him that it was all imaginary. Who or what caused this idea? It obviously derived from a fear that was not caused by observation of the facts. It suddenly overcame him and then remained.

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#4. Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

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#5. If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

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#6. Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. "Freedom" is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Pages 310-311.

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#7. The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

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#8. Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.

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#9. For better to come, good must stand aside.

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#10. If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love

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#11. Ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a

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#12. An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by any archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke in man the slightest trace of that age-old animal power which drives the migrating bird across the sea. . . .

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#13. Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment.

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#14. God is not dead. Now, as ever, he liveth.

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#15. Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.

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#16. I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

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#17. Slavery and rebellion are inseparable correlates. Hence, rivalry for power and exaggerated distrust pervade the entire organism from top to bottom.

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#18. It is the face of his own evil shadow that grins at Western man from the other side of the Iron curtain.

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#19. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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#20. I swayed between fear, defiance, and nausea, and was wholly the prey of my passion. I could not and did not want to listen to the depths. But on the seventh night, the spirit of the depths spoke to me: Look into your depths, pray to your depths, waken the dead.

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#21. It would be a ridiculous and unwarranted presumption on our part if we imagined that we were more energetic or more intelligent than the men of the past - our material knowledge has increased, but not our intelligence.

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#22. In general, the heart seems to have a more reliable memory for what benefits the psyche than does the head, which has a rather unhealthy tendeny to lead an 'abstract' existence, and easily forgets that its consciousness is snuffed out the moment the heart fails its duty.

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#23. People cannot stand too much reality.

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#24. That the gods die from time to time is due to man's sudden discovery that they do not mean anything, that they are made by human hands, useless idols of wood and stone.

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#25. Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People

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#26. If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.

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#27. Communion gives us warmth.
Singleness gives us light.
At immeasurable distance stands one single star at the zenith.
This star is the God and goal of humanity.
In this world one is Abraxas,
creater and destroyer of one's world.

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#28. In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

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#29. The future of mankind depends very much upon the recognition of the shadow.

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#30. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

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#31. We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

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#32. Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that the people are as we imagine them to be.

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#33. Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.

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#34. Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

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#35. To be normal is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful.

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#36. The great Poetry that creates out of the soul of humankind is inaccurately explained if we reduce it to the personal

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#37. That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.

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#38. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

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#39. You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

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#40. and doctrinairism are the disease of our time; they pretend to have all the answers."44 Where primitives identify themselves with the world itself, moderns identify themselves with the part of them that controls the world: the ego.

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#41. Everyone is in love with his own ideas

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#42. In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

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#43. Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

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#44. The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own.

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#45. In so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists.

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#46. The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

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#47. Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?

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#48. I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks

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#49. The energic value of a cause is never abolished by positing an arbitrary and rational goal: that is always a makeshift.

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#50. When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

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#51. Where your fear is,
there is your task.

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#52. I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

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#53. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable-perhaps everything.-Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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#54. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

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#55. Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

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#56. They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

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#57. If we are to do justice to the essence of the thing we call spirit, we should really speak of a "higher" consciousness rather than of the unconscious.

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#58. Like all numinous contents, they have a tendency to self-amplification, that is to say they form the nuclei for an aggregation of synonyms. These

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#59. Most people confuse "self-knowledge" with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone

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#60. At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.

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

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#62. Good advice is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so little
effect ...

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#63. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

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#64. Only Gnostics and contemporaries qualify, for they alone are both severed from their unconscious and aware of the fact.

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#65. For underlying all philosophies and all religions are the facts of the human soul, which may ultimately be the arbiters of truth and error.

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#66. We want to have certainties and no doubts
results and no experiments
without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only through experiment.

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#67. The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

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#68. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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#69. In contrast to the subjectivism of the conscious mind the unconscious is objective, manifesting itself mainly in the form of contrary feelings, fantasies, emotions, impulses and dreams, none of which one makes oneself but which come upon one objectively. Even

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#70. Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.

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#71. statistical reality is the only one, then that is the sole authority. There is then only one condition, and since no contrary condition exists, judgment and decision are not only superfluous but impossible.

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#72. There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the statistical method shows only the average aspects, it creates an artificial and predominantly conceptual picture of reality.

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#73. what am I to do here?

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#74. Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted ...

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#75. Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

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#76. In our civilized life, we have stripped so many ideas of their emotional energy, we do not really respond to them any more. We

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#77. Perhaps because alchemy combines the ancient, Gnostic focus on the immaterial and transcendent soul, or spark, with the modern, scientific-like focus on the transformation of worldly matter, it serves to connect the two. Despite his professed closer kinship to alchemy,

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#78. Indeed, I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope, my mind's eye a mirror that reflects a small corner of the world, and my ideas
a subjective confession.

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#79. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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#80. The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

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#81. I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery.

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#82. We are always human and we should never forget the burden of being only human

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#83. It is particularly in contacts with people of the same sex that one stumbles over both one's own shadow and those of other people. Although we do see the shadow in a person of the opposite sex, we are usually much less annoyed by it and can more easily pardon it.

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#84. I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope.

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#85. The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous.

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#86. Explore daily the will of God.

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#87. The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it; namely, the face we never show to the world because we cover it with the persona, the mask of the actor.

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#88. Before him exist neither question nor answer.

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#89. When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

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#90. When you say that the place of the soul is not, then it is not. But if you say that it is, then it is.

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#91. 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.

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

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#93. You do not overcome the old teaching through doing less, but through doing more. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. It was easy for them to laugh, since I had to do strange things.

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#94. Another common peculiarity of hysterics, namely, that of taking everything personally, of never being able to remain objective, and of allowing themselves to be carried away by momentary impressions; this again shows the characteristics of the enhanced object-libido.

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#95. My God is a child, so wonder not that the spirit of this time in me is incensed to mockery and scorn.

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#96. Wherever the creative power of desire is, there springs the soil's own seed. But do not forget to wait.

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#97. My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.

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#98. This is an aspect of the modern "cultural" mind that is well worth looking into. It shows an alarming degree of dissociation and psychological confusion.

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#99. Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

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#100. The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world's answer.

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