Quotes from C.G. Jung

Whoever prides himself too much on having sustained no wound in the battle of life lays himself open to the suspicion that his fighting has been with words only, whilst actually he has remained far away from the firing line.

If ignorance alone, according to Gnostic orthodoxy, keeps humans tied to the material world, knowledge frees them from it. Because humans are ignorant, that knowledge must come from outside them. Because the powers of the material world are ignorant, too, that knowledge must come from beyond them as well: it can come only from the godhead. The dependence of humanity on the godhead matches the dependence of the ego on the unconscious to reveal itself.

Like the instincts, the collective thought patterns of the human mind are innate and inherited. They function, when the occasion arises, in more or less the same way in all of us.

We can get in touch with another person only by an attitude of unprejudiced objectivity.

Psihologia individului corespunde îns? psihologiei naÈ›iunilor. Ceea ce fac naÈ›iunile face È™i individul È™i, atâta timp cât face individul, face È™i naÈ›iunea. Doar schimbarea atitudinii individului este începutul schimb?rii psihologiei naÈ›iunii. Marile probleme ale omenirii nu au fost niciodat? rezolvate prin legi generale, ci întotdeauna doar prin reînnoirea atitudinii individului.

Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Nothing brings the relentless flight of time and the cruel perishability of all blossoms more painfully to our consciousness than an inactive and empty life.

If play expires in itself without creating anything durable and vital, it is only play, but in the other case it is called creative work. Out of a playful movement of elements whose interrelations are not immediately apparent, patterns arise which an observant and critical intellect can only evaluate afterwards. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

The Song of Hiawatha contains material that is well suited to bring into play the vast potentialities for archetypal symbolization latent in the human mind and to stimulate the creation of images. But the products always contain the same old human problems, which rise up again and again in new symbolic guise from the shadowy world of the unconscious.

Bilincin olmad??? yerde, pratik anlamda bir yaÅŸam yoktur, çünkü dünya ancak bir psiÅŸe taraf?ndan bilinçli olarak düÅŸünüldüÄŸü ve bilinçli olarak ifade edildiÄŸi sürece varolabilir. Bilinç, varolman?n önkoÅŸuludur.

I do not in the least mean to say that we must never pass judgement in the cases of persons whom we desire to help and improve. But if the doctor wishes to help a human being he must be able to accept him as he is. And he can do this in reality only when he has already seen and accepted himself as he is.

Es sorprendente la transformación que se opera en el carácter de un individuo al irrumpir en él las fuerzas colectivas. Un ser humano afable y sensato puede tornarse un maníaco o una bestia salvaje.

A verdade é que a morte é uma brutalidade terrível - não pode haver ilusões a esse respeito -, não apenas como acontecimento físico, mas, ainda muito mais, como acontecimento psíquico: uma pessoa é-nos arrebatada e o que fica é um gélido silêncio sepulcral.

In order to free the fiction of the sovereign State – in other words, the whims of those who manipulate it – from every wholesome restriction, all sociopolitical movements tending in this direction invariably try to cut the ground from under the religions. For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Idle dreaming is the mother of the fear of death, the sentimental deploring of what has been and the vain turning back of the clock.

Man, I, in an invisible act of creation put the stamp of perfection on the world by giving it objective existence.

So far as we have any information about man, we know that he has always and everywhere been under the influence of dominating ideas. Any one who alleges that he is not can immediately be suspected of having exchanged a known form of belief for a variant which is less known both to himself and to others. Instead of theism he is a devotee of atheism, instead of Dionysus he favours the more modern Mithras, and instead of heaven he seeks paradise on earth. [129]

For this purpose we must first make it quite clear to ourselves that all knowledge is the result of imposing some kind of order upon the reactions of the psychic system as they flow into our consciousness—an order which reflects the behaviour of a meta-psychic reality, of that which is in itself real.

Quien mira hacia fuera, sueña. Quien mira hacia adentro, despierta

sonhos: o sonho retrata a situação interna do sonhador, cuja verdade e realidade o consciente reluta em aceitar ou não aceita de todo.

Although man can forget in the long- (perhaps too long) guarded feelings of youth, in the dreamy state of stubbornly held remembrances, that the wheel rolls onward, nevertheless mercilessly does the gray hair, the relaxation of the skin and the wrinkles in the face tell us, that whether or not we expose the body to the destroying powers of the whole struggle of life, the poison of the stealthily creeping serpent of time consumes our bodies, which, alas! we so dearly love.

With a painful slice, I cut off what I pretended to know about what lies beyond me. I excise myself from the cunning interpretative loops that I gave to what lies beyond me. And my knife cuts even deeper and separates me from the meaning that I conferred upon myself. I cut down to the marrow, until everything meaningful falls from me, until I am no longer as I might seem to myself, until I know only that I am without knowing what I am.

We push one another into vice. And how can a man be recalled to salvation, when he has none to restrain him, and all mankind to urge him on? …