Carl Gustav Jung
Swiss psychiatrist
Lived from: 1875 - 1961
Category: Psychologists Country: 
Switzerland
Born: 26 july 1875 Died: 6 june 1961
Quotes 61 till 80 of 129.
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)― Carl Gustav Jung -
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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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)― Carl Gustav Jung -
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.
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The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age.
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The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any egoconsciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1933)― Carl Gustav Jung -
The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The great problems of life, including of course sex, are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are balancing and compensating factors that correspond to the problems which life confronts us with in reality. This is not matter for astonishment, since these images are deposits of thousands of years of experience of the struggle for existence and for adaptation.
Psychological Types (1921)― Carl Gustav Jung -
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)― Carl Gustav Jung -
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
― Carl Gustav Jung
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