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Existence Quotes by Carl Jung
- Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence…
- Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here…
- The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or…
- An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding…
- Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to…
- Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We…
- Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol.…
- It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out…
- I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation…
- A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he…
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike…
- But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having…
- A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose…
- With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the…
- It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so…
- Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
- The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery,…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
- I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire