Carl Jung Quotes

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• 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…
• VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.
• It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
• That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.
• Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first…
• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.
• The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose…
• You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
• The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.
• 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…
• Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.
• The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
• From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source…
• It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
• The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow…
• The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
• 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…
• In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the…
• Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

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