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Inspirational Quotes by Carl Jung

101 Inspirational quotes by Carl Jung

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Carl Jung explains that reason alone cannot turn us into something new; we must follow what we already can become. He says the spirit and body are really one, and that losing meaning can make life feel dead. He also reminds us that a higher power is always present.

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VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

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Without freedom there can be no morality.

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Magic is the science of the jungle.

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I would rather be whole than good.

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For better to come, good must stand aside.

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Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

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Simple things are always the most difficult.

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It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

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Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

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Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

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Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

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The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

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In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

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Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

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All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

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Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

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The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

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In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

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No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

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It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear…

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Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when…

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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…

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The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no…

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So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering…

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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the…

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No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is…

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Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain."…

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Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit

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People cannot stand too much Reality.

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Even a lie is a psychic fact.

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Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

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One must be able to let things happen.

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Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

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I don't believe. I know.

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All neurotics seek the religious

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Called or not, God is always there.

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Nothing is possible without love.

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The sure path can only lead to death.

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What you resist persist.

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Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

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No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him…

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given…

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living…

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.