Top & Most Famous C.G. Jung Quotes
"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."
"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."
"Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being."
"To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real."
"Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer."
"Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something."
"Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day."
"The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us."
"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
"Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality."
"Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete."
"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."
"The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day."
"I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways."
"Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair."
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