Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

• We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases.

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• My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

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• The true leader is always led.

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• We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

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• But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

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• A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

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• The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man.

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• Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

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• Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

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• Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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• Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.

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• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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• I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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• The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice.

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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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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