Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

• Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

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• The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

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• The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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• God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.

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• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

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• To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.

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• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

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• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

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

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• One cannot live without inconsistency.

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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• 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.

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

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• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

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

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• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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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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