Carl Gustav Jung
Swiss psychiatrist
Lived from: 1875 - 1961
Category: Psychologists Country: 
Switzerland
Born: 26 july 1875 Died: 6 june 1961
Quotes 41 till 60 of 129.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) Closing lines of the preface.― Carl Gustav Jung -
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)― Carl Gustav Jung -
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)― Carl Gustav Jung -
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)― Carl Gustav Jung -
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
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One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
Jung and the Story of Our Time, Laurens van der Post (1977)― Carl Gustav Jung -
Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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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.
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Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
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Our psychology is... a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
Psychology and Religion: West and East (1958)― Carl Gustav Jung
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