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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 28

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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

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.

Book, Hands, Collective Unconscious

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Time, Wine, Years

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

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

Reality, Thinking, Littles

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

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Finding Yourself, Becoming, Know Yourself

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

Add, Disappointed, Memories Dreams Reflections

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

The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

Death, Mean, Curves

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Expression, Self, Goal

Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.169, Routledge

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Beautiful, Disappointment, Hair

We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

Art, Real, Psychics

Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.

Meaningful, Attitude, Men

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

Reality, Evil, Half

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

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

God, Real, Men

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

Real, Dark, Personality

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

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

Religious, Consciousness, Spontaneous

"The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams". Book by Carl Jung, p. 85, 1958.

The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

Inspiring, Angel, Soul

"Memories, dreams, reflections".

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Children, Needs, Mythology

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

Thinking, People, Rooms

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

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

Fear, Understanding, Doe

Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

Thinking, Needs, Symbols

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Personality, Effort, Ego

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self”

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

Dream, Order, Wish

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

Fate, Destiny, Honor

Interview with H. R. Knickerbocker in 1939. "A Life of Jung". Book by Ronald Hayman, p. 360, 2002.

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

Self, Psychology, Depth

Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (2002). “Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis”, p.109, Psychology Press

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

Art, Men, Collective Unconscious

"Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

Sea, Looking Forward, Infinite

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

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