Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

• It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

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• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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• I began to blame the philosophers for rattling away when experience was lacking, and holding their tongues when they ought to have been answering with facts. In this respect they all seemed like watered-down theologians.

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• The child who became the world-renowned psychologist C.G. Jung was christened Karl Gustav II Jung.

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• You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him
  others in return.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• Thank God I’m Jung and not a Jungian.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• My evenings are taken up largely with astrology.
  I make horoscopic calculations in order to find
  a clue to the core of psychological truth.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

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• The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

   

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• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away — an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• I maintained that psychiatry, in the broadest sense, is a dialogue between the sick psyche and the psyche of the doctor, which is presumed to be ‘normal.’ It is a coming to terms between the sick personality and that of the therapist, both in principle equally subjective.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• A scream is always just that – a noise and not music.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The life of man is a dubious experiment. It is a tremendous phenomenon only in numerical terms. Individually, it is so fleeting, so insufficient, that it is literally a miracle that anything can exist and develop at all.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.

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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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