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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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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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The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
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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 maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
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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 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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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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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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Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
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Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
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Our civilization bothers us less with food tabus than with sexual restrictions. In modern society these have come to play the role of an injured deity that is getting its own back in every sphere of human activity, including psychology, where it would reduce "spirit" to sexual repression.
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Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
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I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.
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At bottom we discover nothing new and unknown in the mentally ill; rather, we encounter the substratum of our own natures.
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I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.
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Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
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Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.
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The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.
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Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.
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I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.
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There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
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Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
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But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
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Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when spirit began to degenerate into intellect, did a reaction set in against the unbearable dominance of intellectualism, and this led to the unpardonable mistake of confusing intellect with spirit and blaming the latter for the misdeeds of the former.
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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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