Quotes About Depth

A work of art must relate something that does not appear in its visible form.

Go not outside; truth dwells in the inner man).

I always wonder about people who go to Rome as they might go, for example, to Paris or to London. Certainly Rome as well as these other cities can be enjoyed aesthetically but if you are affected to the depths of your being at every step by the spirit that broods there, if a remnant of a wall here and a column there gaze upon you with a face instantly recognised, then it becomes another matter entirely.

Those who do not realize the special feeling tone of the archetype end with nothing more than a jumble of mythological concepts, which can be strung together to show that everything means anything—or nothing at all. All the corpses in the world are chemically identical, but living individuals are not. Archetypes come to life only when one patiently tries to discover why and in what fashion they are meaningful to a living individual.

Psihopatologia ÅŸtie cu suficient? siguran?? ce îi poate face inconÅŸtientul conÅŸtiinÅ£ei.

The sign is always less than the concept it represents, while a symbol always stands for something more than its obvious and immediate meaning. Symbols, moreover, are natural and spontaneous products. No genius has ever sat down with a pen or a brush in his hand and said: "Now I am going to invent a symbol.

If the unconscious can be recognized as a co-determining factor along with consciousness, and if we can live in such a way that conscious and unconscious demands are taken into account as far as possible, then the centre of gravity of the total personality shifts its position. It is then no longer in the ego, which is merely the centre of consciousness, but in the hypothetical point between conscious and unconscious. This new centre might be called the self.

Ne înÅŸel?m dac? credem c? inconÅŸtientul este ceva inofensiv … Desigur, el nu este primejdios în orice condiÅ£ii; dar de îndat? ce apare o nevroz?, acesta e un semn c? în inconÅŸtient exist? o acumulare de energie, adic? un fel de înc?rc?tur? care poate exploda … S?p?m cumva ca s? d?m de o fântân? artezian? ÅŸi risc?m s? ne izbim de un vulcan.

Making them conscious and giving form to what is unformed has a specific effect in cases where the conscious attitude offers an overcrowded unconscious no possible means of expressing itself.

Întâlnirea cu oameni de cele mai diverse tipuri È™i niveluri psihologice a avut pentru mine o însemn?tate incomparabil mai mare decât o discuÈ›ie fragmentar? cu o celebritate. ConversaÈ›iile cele mai frumoase È™i înc?rcate de semnificaÈ›ii È™i de consecinÈ›e pe care le-am purtat în viaÈ›a mea sunt anonime.

Like all numinous contents, they have a tendency to self-amplification, that is to say they form the nuclei for an aggregation of synonyms. These

Co jednou upadlo do nevÄ›domí, to nevÄ›domí podrží bez ohledu na to, zda tím vÄ›domí trpí nebo ne. VÄ›domí m?že umírat hlady a zimou, zatímco v nevÄ›domí se to zelená a kvete.

only down below can we find the fiery source of life.

A clear differentiation of the conscious man from his unconscious is imperative, since only by the assimilation of conscious standpoints will clarity and understanding be gained, but never by a process of reduction to the unconscious backgrounds, sidelights, quarter-tones.

The sacrifice of the animal means, therefore, the sacrifice of the animal nature, the instinctual libido.

Whoever goes into the mirror of the water will first see his own face[:] whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself. [...] Whoever looks into the water sees his own image, but behind it living creatures soon loom up.

to profane those inexpressible feelings with stale sentimentalities.

Ale žádný vysoko vzrostlý, vzneÅ¡ený strom se jeÅ¡tÄ› nikdy nevzdal svých temných koÃ…â"¢en?. Roste nejen nahoru, nýbrž také dol?. JistÄ› je naprosto d?ležité to, kam ?lovÄ›k jde; ale stejnÄ› d?ležitá mi pÃ…â"¢ipadá otázka: Kdo kam jde? A ono "kdo" vždycky vede k "odkud".

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.

In solitude let there be squandering of abundance. For community is the depth, while solitude is the height. The true order in community purifies and preserves. The true order in solitude purifies and increases. Community gives us warmth, while solitude gives us the light.

But just as conscious contents can vanish into the unconscious, new contents, which have never yet been conscious, can arise from it.

Here is the dwelling of night; whereas the lobby stood for the daylight world and its superficiality.

Thus a word or an image is symbolic when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning.

So long as a symbol is a living thing, it is the expression for something that cannot be characterized in any other or better way. The symbol is alive only so long as it is pregnant with meaning. But once its meaning has been born out of it, once that expression is found which formulates the thing sought, expected, or divined even better than the hitherto accepted symbol, then the symbol is dead, i.e., it possesses only an historical significance