Top & Most Famous C.G. Jung Quotes
"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."
"Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act."
"If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them."
"I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni."
"All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out."
"The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid."
"There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world."
"I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles."
"Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal."
"During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary."
"Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer."
"I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life."
"What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured."
"For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him."
"One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games."
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough."
"Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest."
"Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake."
"Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned."
"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."
"I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are."
"The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord."
"The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present."
"Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands."
"His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community."
"Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator."
"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."
"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
"Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place."
"I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen."
"The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life."
"However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment."
"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument…"
"A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life."
"The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals."
"But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity."
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