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C.G. Jung Quotes | Quotes said by C.G. Jung

  • C.G. Jung Quote #1

    ?...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #2

    A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche. If it is a very large group, the collective psyche will be more like the psyche of an animal, which is the reason why the ethical attitude of large organizations is always doubtful. The psychology of a large crowd inevitably sinks to the level of mob psychology. If, therefore, I have a so-called collective experience as a member of a group, it takes place on a lower level of consciousness than if I had the experience by myself alone.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #3

    A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman. Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and our blindness is extremely dangerous.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #4

    Acel gest simbolic de a o întrona pe Déesse Raison la Notre-Dame pare sa fi însemnat pentru lumea apuseana ceva asemanator cu taierea Stejarilor lui Wotan de catre misionarii crestini, caci nici atunci, nici acum, fulgerul razbunator nu i-a lovit pe nelegiuiti. Este probabil mai mult decât o gluma a istoriei universale faptul ca tocmai în acel moment si tocmai un francez, Anquetil du Perron, se afla în India si, la începutul secolului al XIX-lea, aducea acasa o traducere a Oupnek’hat, o culegere de cincizeci de Upanisade, care au permis pentru prima oara Occidentului sa arunce o privire mai adânca înauntrul enigmaticului spirit al Orientului … Masa anonima de oameni întunecati, care s-a adunat cu gânduri distrugatoare în Notre-Dame, s-a napustit si asupra individului, nimerindu-l si pe Anquetil du Perron, în care a provocat un raspuns devenit istoric. De la el se trag Schopenhauer si Nietzsche, de la el apare acea influenta spirituala înca incalculabila a Orientului.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #5

    Acolo unde predomina materialismul rationalist statele se transforma mai putin în niste închisori, cât în niste ospicii.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #6

    Ale žádný vysoko vzrostlý, vznešený strom se ješte nikdy nevzdal svých temných korenu. Roste nejen nahoru, nýbrž také dolu. Jiste je naprosto duležité to, kam clovek jde; ale stejne duležitá mi pripadá otázka: Kdo kam jde? A ono kdo vždycky vede k odkud.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #7

    Aquilo que você resiste, persiste.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #8

    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.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #9

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

  • C.G. Jung Quote #10

    As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #11

    Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #12

    At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing in the Tower that has not grown into its own form over the decades, nothing with which I am not linked. Here everything has its history, and mine; here is space for the spaceless kingdom of the world's and the psyche's hinterland.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #13

    Avšak jako tvurcí clovek je jedinec vystaven tomu, že není svobodný, nýbrž jej poutá a pudí démon.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #14

    Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #15

    But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #16

    But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

  • C.G. Jung Quote #17

    But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #18

    Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days whereas nowadays nobody ever sees him. The rabbi replied: Nowadays there is no longer anybody who can bow low enough.
    This answer hits the nail on the head. We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. The Buddhist discards the world of unconscious fantasies as useless illusions; the Christian puts his Church and his Bible between himself and his unconscious; and the rational intellectual does not yet know that his consciousness is not his total psyche.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #19

    Clovek se prirozene nemuže od detství osvobodit, aniž by se jím podrobne nezabýval, jak již dlouho víme z Freudových výzkumu. Ciste intelektuálním vedením pritom nelze niceho dosáhnout. Úcinné je pouze rozpomenutí se, které je zároven znovuprožitím. Mnohé zustane nevyrešené díky rychlému plynutí let a premáhajícímu proudu vemu z práve odhalovaného sveta. Od toho se clovek neosvobodil, nýbrž jenom vzdálil. Vrátí-li se tedy z pozdejších let zpátky k detským vzpomínkám, nalezne tam ješte živé cásti vlastní osobnosti, které se ho pevne chytí, pripojí se k nemu a prosytí jej znovu pocitem drívejších let. Tyto cásti jsou ale dosud ve stavu detství, a proto silné a bezprostrední. Pouze jsou-li opet spojeny s dospelým vedomím, mohou pozbýt svuj infantilní apekt a mohou být upraveny. Vždy musí být nejprve prozkoumáno toto osobní nevedomí, to znamená musí dojít k jeho uvedomení, jinak nelze otevrít vstup ke kolektivnímu nevedomí.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #20

    Co se od našich vzoru mužeme naucit, je predevším ta skutecnost, že duše skrývá obsahy nebo je vystavena vlivum, jejichž asimilace se pojí s nejvetšími nebezpecími. Když tedy starí alchymisté své tajemství pripisovali hmote a Faust ani Zarathuštra nás nikterak nepovzbuzují k tomu, abychom je k sobe priclenili, nezbývá asi nic jiného, než ten arogantní nárok vedomí, aby bylo samo duší, odmítnout a priznat duši skutecnost, již našimi soucasnými rozumovými prostredky nejsme schopni pochopit. Nepovažuji za tmáre toho, kdo prizná svou nevedomost, nýbrž toho, jehož vedomí není ješte ani tak vyvinuto, že o své nevedomosti nic neví. Jsem toho názoru, že alchymistické ocekávání, že z hmoty lze zhotovit filosofické zlato nebo všelék nebo zázracný Kámen, je sice na jedné strane iluzí (jejíž prícinou je projekce), ale na strane druhé odpovídá psychickým skutecnostem, jimž v psychologii nevedomí pripadá velký význam. Alchymista totiž, jak dokazují texty a jejich symbolika, projikoval proces individuace do chemických procesu promeny.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #21

    Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #22

    Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #23

    Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #24

    Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #25

    Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #26

    How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

  • C.G. Jung Quote #27

    I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #28

    I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!

  • C.G. Jung Quote #29

    I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

  • C.G. Jung Quote #30

    I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

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