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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 27

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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

Inspirational, Men, Personality

Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

Psychology, Theatre, Viewpoints

Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.43, Courier Corporation

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

Art, Creativity, Giving

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.

Men, Denial, Culture

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.98, Psychology Press

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Marriage, Pain, Doe

"Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 193, 1928.

I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

Thinking, Views, Path

Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.73, Courier Corporation

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Believe, Men, History

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

Ideas, Unity, Migration

Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

Men, Way, Greatest Man

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

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

Dream, Sleep, Waking Life

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Freedom, Understanding, Limits

"Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

Real, Echoes, Essence

Carl Gustav Jung (1956). “Symbols of transformation”

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

Religious, Encounters, Events

It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

Suicide, Real, Self

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

People, Quality, Bad Qualities

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Inspirational, Suffering, Progress

Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

Powerful, Discovery, Opposites

Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.489, Routledge

For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

Spiritual, Men, Typical

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.317, Princeton University Press

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

Dream, Symbolism, Analyzing

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

Dream, Sea, Culture

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

Patient, Nonsense, Select

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

Intelligent, Pilots, Guidance

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

Inspirational, Moon, Space Flight

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Animal, Talking, Memories Dreams Reflections

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

Self, Opposites, Energy

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