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There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
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It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
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The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.
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One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.
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The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge.
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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.
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Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.
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I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.
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The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature.
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The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
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The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
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The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.
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The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
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Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.
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I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.
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The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.
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The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.
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Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.
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To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.
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Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.
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Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
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I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
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Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.
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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. And if such a person wants to be cured it is necessary to find a way in which his conscious personality and his shadow can live together.
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The assumption that the human psyche possesses layers that lie below consciousness is not likely to arouse serious opposition. But... there could just as well be layers lying above consciousness... The conscious mind can only claim a relatively central position and must put up with the fact that the unconscious psyche transcends and as it were surrounds it on all sides. Unconscious contents connect it backward with the physiological states on the one hand and archetypal data on the other. But it is extended forward by intuitions which are conditioned partly by archetypes and partly by subliminal perceptions depending on the relativity of time and space in the unconscious.
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Born:
July 26, 1875
Died:
June 6, 1961
(aged 85)
Bio:
Carl Gustav Jung, often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology.
Known for:
The Red Book
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Man and His Symbols
Psychological Types (1921)
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1959)
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