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Carl Jung

(1875–1961) Essayist Germany

775 quotes in 2446 categories

Carl Jung’s deep explorations of the unconscious and symbolic imagery emerge in more than seven hundred quotes, guiding readers through the terrain of inner discovery.

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Carl Jung was an essayist from Germany, best known for Psychology of the Transference.

Quick Facts About Carl Jung

Born: July 26, 1875
Died: June 6, 1961
Nationality: Germany
Profession: Essayist
Notable works: Psychology of the Transference

About Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of archetypes. Widely considered one of the most influential psychologists of all time, Jung's work has fostered not only scholarship, but also popular interest. His work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Carl Jung

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

Hitler

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What we lack is intensity of life.

Intensity

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I don't believe. I know.

Believe

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Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

Enchantment

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Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

Beautiful

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Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

Afford

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Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

Accepting

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All neurotics seek the religious

Inspirational

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We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Disguise

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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Accept

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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Hands

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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Birth

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Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

Course of life

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What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

Adapted

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Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Ability

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The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Capacity

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The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize…

Art

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Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need…

Calling

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Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed…

Aim

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No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

Hypothetical

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Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in…

Echoes

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

Connections

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“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.”

Ambiguity

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The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become…

Educated

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“The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be…

Life

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People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than…

Adversity

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house…

Behinds

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Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of…

Age

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In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of…

Age

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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a…

Behinds

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I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if…

Adventure

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The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings…

Angel

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The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then…

Ascent

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When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of…

Assuming

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Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An…

Archetype

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In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace…

Achievement

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The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what…

Aliens

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The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you…

Body

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...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The…

Archetype

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It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether…

Action

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Carl Jung by topic

Life (137) Men (116) Inspirational (101) Psychology (83) Unconscious (80) Memories dreams reflections (71) World (59) Love (57) Humans (54) Consciousness (54) Conscious (54) Ifs (51) Religion (49) Philosophy of Mind (45) Nature (45) Dreams (45) Dream (42) Doe (42) Soul (38) Self (37) Individual (37) Knows (36) Mind (32) Way (31) Time (31)