Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

• Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Progress

• You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man’s. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?

  Carl Gustav Jung

• Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one’s own being.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Youth

• One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

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• Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are yet in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. We can well think all our lives long that we are following our own noses, and may never discover that we are, for the most part, supernumeraries on the stage of the world theatre.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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• Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

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• Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

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Carl Gustav Jung (134)

Birth:	26th July, 1875
Death:	6th June, 1961
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Psychotherapist

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Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland. He was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death. Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity.

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