Carl Gustav Jung Quotes…
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.
Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his “new science” of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as President of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung’s research and personal vision, however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague’s doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung’s analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis.
Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual’s conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion.
Jung was also an artist, craftsman, builder and a prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death and some are still awaiting publication.
Carl Gustav Jung Quotes
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
“There’s no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“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. ”
“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life…If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature…Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”
