Today I leave you the best Carl Jung quotes, Swiss psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who developed analytical psychology. Among many other contributions, highlights his proposal of the concepts of archetypes, extroverted and introverted personality and the collective unconscious.
However, Carl Jung's work has not only had a great influence on psychology and psychiatry, but also on religion, literature, anthropology and philosophy. It is also known that he collaborated and learned from Sigmund Freud, although he did not agree with him in various aspects.
His theory of libido stands out; He thought that libido is not only sexual energy, but generalized psychic energy. Also his theory of the unconscious; thought that the psyche is made up of three main systems: the ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious.
Furthermore, Jung's concept of archetypes is very influential; images and themes with universal meaning that appear in culture, art, religion or dreams. In the following sentences you will be able to appreciate the genius and extraordinary ideas of this influential psychologist.
- "Life cannot be happy without a little darkness".
- "You are what you do, not what you say you are going to do".
- "What you resist persists".
- "Thinking is difficult, that's why many people judge".
- "Your vision will be clearer only when you can see into your heart".
- “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, wakes up ".
- "A person does not enlighten by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness aware".
- "The scariest thing of all is fully accepting yourself".
- "I am not what has happened to me, I am what I have chosen to be".
- "Shame is a soul-devouring emotion".
- "The privilege of a life is to become who you really are".
- "What irritates us about others can lead us to understand even more about ourselves".
- "There is no birth of consciousness without pain".
- “People need difficulties; they are necessary for health ".
- "Knowing your own darkness is the best method of dealing with other people's darkness".
- "It all depends on how we see things, and not on how they are by themselves".
- “Where love rules, there is no desire for power; and where power predominates, there is a lack of love. One is the shadow of the other".
- "Without freedom there can be no morality".
- "The meeting of two personalities is like when two chemical substances come into contact: if a reaction occurs, both are transformed".
- “The shoe that fits one person, tightens another; there is no recipe for life for everyone ".
- "The debt we owe to our imagination is incalculable".
- "If there is something we want to change in a child, we must first examine it and see if it is not something we must change in ourselves.".
- "Children learn from what adults do, not what they say".
- "The task of people is to become aware of the contents that rise from the unconscious".
- "The pendulum of the mind swings between what makes sense and what doesn't, not between right and wrong".
- "Knowledge does not depend only on the truth, but also on error".
- "The person who has not gone through the hell of his passions has not overcome them yet".
- “There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would find himself in the madhouse ".
- "No one, while moving between the chaotic currents of life, is free from problems".
- "When you don't understand a person, you tend to think of them as a fool".
- "The person who promises everything, surely does not fulfill anything".
- "When you are not aware of an internal situation, it appears externally as a destination".
- "Resistance to the organized mass can only be carried out by the person who is as well organized as an individual, as the mass itself".
- "Who has realized that history is not found in thick books, but lives in our own blood?".
- "Follow that desire and that way that experience confirms that it is yours".
- "The great tragedy of a family is the unlived life of the parents".
- "Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling".
- "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul.".
- "The fullness is not achieved by cutting a portion of oneself, but by integrating all the parts".
- "The reason for the evil in the world is because people are not able to tell their stories".
- "The nights, through dreams, tell the myths forgotten by the day".
- "Every human life has potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life will have been wasted".
- "Anyone who tries to do both, to adapt to his group and, at the same time, to pursue his personal goals, becomes neurotic".
- "There can be no transformation from darkness into light, nor from apathy in movement, without emotion".
- “We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemning does not liberate, it oppresses ".
- "The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness".
- "It is much better to take things as they are presented with patience and balance".
- "We always remember with appreciation those brilliant teachers, but those who touched our feelings we remember with gratitude".
- "In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order".
- "A healthy person does not torture other people, it is generally the tortured who becomes a torturer".
- “The biggest and most important problems in life are fundamentally unsolvable. They will never be solved, but will never be overcome ".
- "The creative mind plays with the objects it loves".
- "As far as we can understand, the sole purpose of the existence of the human being is to turn on a light in the darkness of the mere being".
- "All forms of addiction are bad, it does not matter if the drug is alcohol, morphine or idealism".
- "Often the hands solve mysteries that the intellect has not been able to solve".
- "Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, insofar as one can face an understandable darkness".
- "If a person does not know what something is, knowing what it is not increases his knowledge about it".
- "Show me a sane man and I will heal him for you".
- "The most intense conflicts, if they are resolved, leave a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed".
- "In life, the smallest thing with meaning is worth more than something great that lacks it".
- "Psychoneurosis must be understood, finally, as the suffering of a soul that has not yet discovered its meaning".
- “Pride always fools ourselves. But deep down, under the surface of our consciousness, a small and still voice tells us that something is wrong ".
- “We must not pretend to understand the world solely by using our intellect. The judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth ".
- “Great talents are the most beautiful and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. These hang from the thinnest branches, which break easily ".
- "Neurosis is always the substitute for legitimate suffering".
- "In my case, the Pilgrim's Progress consisted of having to go down thousands of stairs until I could reach the small clod of earth that I am".
- “Today, everyone knows that people have complexes. What is not very well known, although it is theoretically more important, is that complexes can have us ".
- "Walking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal that deprives the second half of life of its purpose".
- “The word 'believe' is very difficult for me. I do not believe. I must have a reason for certain hypotheses. If I know one thing, that's why I know it; I don't need to believe in it ".
- Dreams are the words that guide the soul. Why not love them from now on, and turn their riddles into objects of my daily consideration? ".
- "We consider happy those who from life experience have learned to cope with their ills without being defeated by them".
- "The masses are always a breeding ground for psychic epidemics".
“Our heart shines, and secretly gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a matter of life for us ".
- "A scream" is nothing more than that, a noise and not music ".
- “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right do we have to despise the imagination? ".
- "Without playing with our fantasies it is not possible to create any creative work".
- "It is a fact that cannot be denied: the evil of others becomes our evil because it ignites something evil in our own heart".
- "A human being would not grow beyond 70 or 80 years if his longevity did not mean something to the species".
- "The sunset of the human being must also have its own meaning, and not simply be a regrettable complement to its sunrise".
- “The wine of youth does not always clear up with age; sometimes it gets cloudy ".
- "Sometimes there is so much difference between genius and human qualities that it makes one wonder if having a little less talent would not have been better".
- "Progressive mental development means, in effect, the extension of consciousness".
- "The Christian missionary can preach the gospel to the poor pagans, but the spiritual pagans who inhabit Europe have not yet heard of Christianity.".
- "The symbol of Christ is of great importance for psychology, since it is probably one of the most developed and differentiated symbols of the being, apart from the figure of Buddha".
- How can I be real if I don't cast a shadow? I must also have a dark side if I am to be complete ".
- "It is said that no tree can grow to heaven without its roots reaching hell".
- "The best political, social and spiritual work we can do is to remove the projection of our shadow from others".
- "The first half of life is responsible for forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go".
- "We meet again and again with thousands of costumes on the road of life".
- "I will not commit the fashionable stupidity of considering everything that I cannot explain as fraud".
- "Words are like animals, alive and with their own will".
- “I have treated several hundred patients. Among those who were in the second half of their lives, older than 35 years, there has not been one whose problem has not been to find a religious view of life ".
- “We are now in a better position to observe the instincts of animals. This is because we have become accustomed to describing our own actions and seeking rational explanations for them ".
- “The human being is not a machine that can be reprogrammed for different purposes, depending on the situation, hoping that it works in the same way as before. This one, carries its complete history with it, in its structure the history of humanity is written ".
- "Loneliness does not come from not having people around you, but from the inability to communicate the things that are important to you, or from having certain points of view that for others are inadmissible".
- "In a child, consciousness rises from the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first as separate islands, gradually coming together to form a continuous continental mass of consciousness.".
- “Based on the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy forms a bridge: on the one hand, towards the past, to Gnosticism; and on the other, towards the future, towards the modern psychology of the unconscious ”.
- “For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be worried about himself; but, for an older person, it is a duty and a necessity to pay attention to himself ".
- “The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everyone has instincts, this one also has a set of archetypal images ".
- “We are born at a given time, in a certain place and, as with wine, we have the qualities of the year and the season in which we are born. Astrology is just about that. ".
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