Carl Jung Quotes

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But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

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The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

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Creativeness, like the Freedom of the will, contains a secret.

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The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

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Nowadays most people identify themselves almost exclusively with their consciousness, and imagine that they are only what they know about themselves.

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Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

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A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

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

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If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

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Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it

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

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Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

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Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

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Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

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An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

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