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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 24

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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself.

Order, Broken, Psychology

"The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious".

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.

Children, Sight, Personality

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

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

Mean, Psychology, Doe

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

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

Lying, Law, Subtle

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

I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

Men, Thinking, Forever

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.

Father, Roots, Might

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

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality.

Mistake, Thinking, Knowing

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

Suffering, Neurosis, Emptiness

"Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Special, Disadvantages, Terrible

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life”

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

Helping, Patient, Lost

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Mysterious Things, World, Unexpected

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

Firsts, Metaphor

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.157, Princeton University Press

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

People, Important, Well Known

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

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Wise, Stupid, Men

Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Inspirational, Dream, Looks

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

Views, Emotion, Calm

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

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

Intellectual, Succeed, Individual

Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.30, Courier Corporation

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

Clergymen, Clergy, Force

Modern Man in Search of a Soul Ch. 1

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

Creative, Creation, Eternal

Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.

Dream, Twilight, Doors

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.123, Princeton University Press

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

Daughter, Mother, Backwards

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.188, Princeton University Press

Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even

Real, Psychics, World

Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

People, Giving, Attention

"Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 125, 1933.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Teacher, Attitude, Personality

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

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