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


Carl Gustav Jung

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CARL JUNG
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen ...
CARL JUNG
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for...
CARL JUNG
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far ...
CARL JUNG
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, o...
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
CARL JUNG
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...
CARL JUNG
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I co...
CARL JUNG
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average consci...
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
CARL JUNG
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a compreh...
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered...
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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
CARL JUNG
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
CARL JUNG
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
CARL JUNG
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
CARL JUNG
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
CARL JUNG
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
CARL JUNG
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most h...
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether...
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make th...
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ...
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his ind...
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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