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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 31

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Whether you call the principle of existence God, matter, energy, or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

Thinking, Energy, Principles

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

Past, Men, Personality

"The Collected Works".

The gods have become our diseases.

Disease, Memories Dreams Reflections

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

Answers, Limits, Life Is

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.

Men, Age, Mammals

"Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 126, 1933.

It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.

Thinking, Differences, People

Carl Gustav Jung, Gerhard Adler (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Faith, Majority, Patient

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

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

Clarity, Consciousness, One Time

Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.39, Dell

As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.

Creative, Age, Trying

Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

Dream, Memories, Fall

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.2, Psychology Press

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

Attitude, Long, Stories

I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.

Philosophical, Men, Risk

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

Tree, Meaning Of Life, World

Dream the dream onward.

Dream

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

Sight, Goal, Promise

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

I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark" ... In some astonishment I asked him, "A bulwark-against what?" To which he replied, "Against the black tide of mud"-and here he hesitated for a moment, then added of occultism.

Science, Promise, Black

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

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

Men, Our World, Doubt

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.215, Psychology Press

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

Doubt, Woe, Sometimes

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

God, Men, Self

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

People, Wrong Answers, Neurotic

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

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Inspirational, Motivational, Men

"Jung and the Story of Time". Book by Laurens van der Post, 1975.

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.

Passion, Men, Worst Enemy

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

Art, Men, Effectiveness

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.176, Psychology Press

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

Spring, Essentials, Analysis

Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.188, North Atlantic Books

Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself

Men, Law, Justice

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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