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Carl Jung Quotes - Page 4

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The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Depth, Ascent, Descent

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.19, Princeton University Press

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Children, Parent

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Inspirational, Change, Accepting

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

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

Medicine, Enchantment, Form

Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.4, North Atlantic Books

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit

Matter, Spirit

Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.2, North Atlantic Books

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

Inspirational, Thinking, Feelings

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

Meaningful, Children, Lying

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

Men, Our World, Cosmos

Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.79, North Atlantic Books

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

War, Men, Epidemics

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Funny, Depression, Witty

Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Leadership, Stupid, Understanding

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

Inspirational, Men, Psychics

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

Invited or not, God is present.

Invited

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Love, Hope, Respect

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Opposites, Innovation, Energy

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

Water, Unconscious, Symbols

Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.18, Princeton University Press

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

Inspirational, Children, Childhood

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

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Simple, Forgotten Things, Finding Yourself

Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Health, Thoughtful, Men

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

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

Violence, Terror

Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.74, Routledge

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

Sin, Unconscious

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

Perfection, Excellence

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

Dream, Dirty, Sea

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Leadership, Mean, Men

Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Inspirational, Fate

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