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Symbols Quotes by Carl Jung
- Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
- The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can…
- By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned…
- The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness.…
- 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.…
- 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…
- In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express…
- Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
- As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
- The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.
- There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times,…
- A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
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