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Personality Quotes by Carl Jung
- 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…
- The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.
- 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…
- A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating…
- The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the…
- In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and…
- To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
- Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. .…
- The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case,…
- Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to…
- So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all…
- We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous…
- The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To…
- Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.
- Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we…
- Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a…
- The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts…
- I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,…
- Persona, the mask or image we present to the world. Designed to make a particular impression on others, while concealing our true nature.
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