Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung

Swiss psychiatrist

Lived from: 1875 - 1961

Category: Psychologists Country: FlagSwitzerland

Born: 26 july 1875 Died: 6 june 1961

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  • The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
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  • The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
    Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961)
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  • The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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  • The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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  • The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice.
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  • The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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  • The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
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  • The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
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  • The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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  • The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...
    The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (1960)
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  • The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
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  • The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
    The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364
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  • The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
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  • The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
    Two Essays in Analytical Psychology In CW 7 p. 188
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  • The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
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  • The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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  • The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
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  • The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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  • The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.
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  • The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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