Carl Gustav Jung
Swiss psychiatrist
Lived from: 1875 - 1961
Category: Psychologists Country: 
Switzerland
Born: 26 july 1875 Died: 6 june 1961
Quotes 21 till 40 of 129.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche (1960)― Carl Gustav Jung -
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
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For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the spiritual sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the world and woman, i.e., the anima projected on to the world.
A Study in the Process of Individuation (1934)― Carl Gustav Jung -
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961)― Carl Gustav Jung -
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
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I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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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.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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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.
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In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
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It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
― Carl Gustav Jung
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