Carl Jung

Quotes

• “It is... Jung's finding that men who try to live without contact with the unconscious and its symbolic and mythological ...”
• “We Shall Naturally look round in vain the macrophysical world for acausal events, for the simple reason that we cannot i...”
• “Eros is a superhuman power which, like nature herself, allows itself to be conquered and exploited as though it were imp...”
• “The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere, unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an arche...”
• “There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts...the hu...”
• “Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then ...”
• “What can a man say about woman, his own opposite? I mean of course something sensible, that is outside the sexual progra...”
• “We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental princi...”
• “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga ...”
• “The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question...”
• “Because we cannot discover God's throne in the sky with a radiotelescope or establish (for certain) that a beloved fathe...”
• “Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this...”
• “When we assume God to be a guiding principle-well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of t...”
• “The great problems of life - sexuality, of course, among others - are always related to the primordial images of the col...”
• “I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at on...”
• “The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with t...”
• “It is only natural that I should constantly have revolved in my mind the question of the relationship of the symbolism o...”
• “No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understand...”
• “The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because...”
• “Among all my patients in the second half of life-that is to say, over thirty-five-there has not been one whose problem i...”
• “For lack of empirical data I have neither knowledge nor understanding of such forms of being, which are commonly called ...”
• “Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psy...”
• “Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion t...”
• “Sometimes I had an overwhelming urge to speak, not about that, but only to hint that there were some curious things abou...”
• “The more remote and unreal the personal mother is, the more deeply will the son's yearning for her clutch at his soul, a...”
• “It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently co...”
• “Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the...”
• “Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scien...”
• “The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the f...”
• “For his [the artist's] life is, of necessity, full of conflicts, since two forces fight in him: the ordinary man with hi...”
• “The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's fai...”
• “Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never...”
• “Variant translations: Summoned or not summoned, God is present. Invoked or not invoked, God is present Called or not cal...”
• “Sources: David John Tacey (2007). How to read Jung. W.W. Norton & Co, p. 35; Charles Bartruff Hanna (1967). The Face of ...”
• “It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. ... No language exists...”
• “The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit...”
• “The conscious side of woman corresponds to the emotional side of man, not to his "mind." Mind makes up the soul, or bett...”
• “My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths bas...”
• “Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just...”
• “...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to...”
• “All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enab...”
• “Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more intereste...”
• “There are also root dreams shared by the race as a whole. Most of these are not as symbolic as Jung thought them to be b...”
• “The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes ...”
• “We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore,...”
• “Essai d'interprétation psycologique du dogme de la Trinité, in Essai sur la symbolique de l'esprit, Paris, 1991, p. 207....”
• “As the animus is partial to argument, he can best be seen at work in disputes where both parties know they are right. Me...”
• “When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seductio...”
• “For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified...”
• “This is actually a statement that Jung discovered among the Latin writings of Desiderius Erasmus, who declared the state...”