Carl Jung quotes - page 6

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious. (Carl Jung)
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. View quote
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. View quote
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. View quote
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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. View quote
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. View quote
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? View quote
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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. View quote
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I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love. View quote
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. View quote
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It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. (Carl Jung)
Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity. View quote
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Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. View quote
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Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them. View quote
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. View quote
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Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. View quote
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I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. View quote
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. View quote
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. View quote
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The gods have become our diseases. View quote
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A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music. (Carl Jung)
The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it. View quote
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Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted... View quote
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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. View quote
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To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. View quote
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