Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The term ‘religion’ designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum.

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• It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• Sensation tell us a thing is.
  Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
  Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know. The naive person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one’s fellows about anything that is unknown to them. They pardon such ruthless behavior only in a writer, journalist or poet.

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• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don’t worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• My aim was to show that delusions and hallucinations were not just specific symptoms of mental disease but also had a human meaning.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• 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

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• 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.

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

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

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• 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.

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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

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• 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.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Art, Dream

Carl Gustav Jung (134)

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

About

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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