Quotes from C.G. Jung

Równie dobrze mo?na ja?n okreÅ›li? jako ,,Boga w nas

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

with the right attitude. In order to do so she would have had to recognize what fate demanded of her, and what was the meaning of the bizarre images that had broken in upon her consciousness.

No experienced worker in this field will deny that there are rules of thumb that can prove helpful, but they must be applied with prudence and intelligence. One may follow all the right rules and yet get bogged down in the most appalling nonsense, simply by overlooking a seemingly unimportant detail that a better intelligence would not have missed. Even a man of high intellect can go badly astray for lack of intuition or feeling.

Even if, juristically speaking, we are not accessories to the crime, we are always, thanks to our human nature, potential criminals. In reality we merely lacked a suitable opportunity to be drawn into the infernal melee.

O funcÈ›ionare incorect? a psihicului poate d?una în mare m?sur? corpului, dup? cum, invers, o suferin?? fizic? poate s? atrag? participarea la suferin?? a sufletului; c?ci sufletul È™i corpul nu sunt ceva separat, ci sunt mai degrab? una È™i aceeaÈ™i via??. Astfel, rareori exist? o boal? a corpului care s? nu fie complicat? psihic, chiar dac? nu este determinat? psihic.

For an inwardly sound and self-confident person will be more adequate to his social tasks than one who is not on good terms with his unconscious.

The relation to ideas can be more emotional or more reflective according to whether the individual belongs more to the feeling or to the thinking type.

Jung identifies the "Anthropos" ("Primal Man" or "Original Man"), "Christ," and the "Son" with God. The Anthropos begins as part of the unconscious godhead, emerges as an independent ego, eventually forgets his unconscious origin, must be reminded of it by the godhead, and then returns to it to form a unified

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

A symbol does not disguise, it reveals in time.

To the objective observer it is perfectly clear that the fantasies were products of a psychic energy not under the control of the conscious mind. They were longings, impulses, and symbolic happenings which it was quite unable to cope with either positively or negatively.

One can explain and know only if one has reduced intuitions to an exact knowledge of facts and their logical connections.

As Jung says more clearly of Christ: This Gnostic Christ … symbolizes man's original unity and exalts it as the saving goal of his development. By "composing

He who would fathom the psyche must not confuse it with consciousness, else he veils from his own sight the object he wishes to explore.

The instinctual impulse that was trying to rouse the dreamer from the sleep of childhood was opposed by a personal pride that was distinctly out of place, and also, one must suppose, by a correspondingly narrow moral horizon, so that there was nothing to help her understand the spiritual content of the symbols.

Although it is true that everyone orients himself in accordance with the data supplied by the outside world, we see every day that the data in themselves are only relatively decisive...One man resigns himself to circumstances because experience has shown him that nothing else is possible, another is convinced that though things have gone the same way a thousand times before, the thousand and first time will be different.

Woe unto you, for you have substituted the oneness of god for the diversity which cannot be resolved into the one.

I wandered for many years, so long that I forgot that I possessed a soul.48 Where were you all this time? Which Beyond sheltered you and gave you sanctuary? Oh, that you must speak through me, that my speech and I are your symbol and expression! How should I decipher you?

Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.

In reality fantasies mean much more than that, for they represent at the same time the other mechanism—of repressed extraversion in the introvert, and of repressed introversion in the extravert.

By confining our activity to a single sphere we have handed ourselves over to a master who is not infrequently to end up by suppressing the rest of our capacities. While in one place a luxuriant imagination ravages the hard-earned fruits of the intellect, in another the spirit of abstraction stifles the fire at which the heart might have warmed itself and the fancy been enkindled.

the unstable," by bringing order into chaos, by resolving disharmonies and centring upon the mid-point, thus setting a "boundary" to the multitude and focusing attention upon the cross, consciousness is reunited with the unconscious, the unconscious man is made one with his centre … and in this wise the goal of man's salvation and exaltation is reached.77

Not the artist alone, but every creative individual whatsoever owes all that is greatest in his life to fantasy.