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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 18

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Simple things are always the most difficult.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

Simple, Difficult, Simple Things

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

Powerful, Ideas, Most Powerful

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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.

Opposites, Names, Chinese

Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

Dream, Night, Doors

"The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man" (1933)

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Truth, Mistake, Men

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Protection, Cramps, Valuable

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

Heart, Desire, Meaning Of Life

The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.

Years, Important, Details

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

Faith, Powerful, Soul

Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.

Mother, Running, Daughter

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1963). “Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Wisdom, Pain, Light

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

Inspirational, Knows, Memories Dreams Reflections

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos.

Sex, Real, Men

Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Evil, Darkness, Understanding

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

Summoned or not, the god will come.

Gods Will

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

Voice, Demand, Concerts

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

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

Brain, Hundred, Bigs

Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

Light, Understanding, Darkness

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

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Being Yourself, Soul, Desire

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.

Inspirational, Two, Being Real

Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

Only the wounded physician heals.

Wisdom, Physicians, Heal

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

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

Light, Consciousness, Longing

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Psychics, Pregnant

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Psychology, Body, Unions

Factors Determining Human Behaviour

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