Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• Error is just as important a condition of life as truth.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• One cannot live without inconsistency.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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

  Carl Gustav Jung

• It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• Good advice is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so little effect……

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• Among all my patients in the second half of life … there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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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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