SubscribeCarl Jung Love Quotes and Sayings
1. Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
2. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is “by nature religious” and to explore it in depth. Though not the first to analyze dreams, he has become perhaps the most well known pioneer in the field of dream analysis. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician, much of his life’s work was spent exploring other areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts.
He considered the process of individuation necessary for a person to become whole. This is a psychological process of integrating the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining conscious autonomy. Individuation was the central concept of analytical psychology.
Jungian ideas are routinely discussed in part by curriculum of introductory psychology course offerings with most major universities, and although rarely covered by higher level course work, his ideas are discussed further by the Faculty of Humanities. Many pioneering psychological concepts were originally proposed by Jung, including the Archetype, the Collective Unconscious, the Complex, and synchronicity. A popular psychometric instrument, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), has been principally developed from Jung’s theories.
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1. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
2. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
3. Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
4. 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.
5. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
6. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
7. Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
8. Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
9. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
10. If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
11. If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
12. In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
13. In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
14. It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
15. It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
16. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
17. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
18. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
19. Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
20. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
21. Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
22. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
23. Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
24. Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
25. The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
26. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
27. The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
28. The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
29. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
30. There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
31. Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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32. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
33. We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
34. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
