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257 Quotes on Self-Discovery, Psyche, and Embracing Our True Selves

Explore the profound wisdom of psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, as he delves into self-discovery, human psyche, and embracing our true selves. Gain insight into the transformative power of choice, meaning, and personal growth through his timeless words.

Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is widely regarded as one of the most influential psychologists in history. He founded analytical psychology and his work has had a significant impact on various fields including psychiatry, anthropology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Jung developed a friendship with Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, but they eventually parted ways due to their diverging theories. This led to the establishment of Jung's analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis. With concepts such as individuation and the collective unconscious, Jung made important contributions to our understanding of human psychology.

Jung was born in 1875 in Switzerland to a family with strong religious ties. His interest in psychiatry was sparked during his internship under Eugen Bleuler at Burghölzli psychiatric hospital. On Bleuler's recommendation, Jung familiarized himself with the writings of Sigmund Freud and became a qualified proponent of psychoanalysis. He sent Freud his research papers and later met him for an extensive discussion that lasted 13 hours. They collaborated for six years before tensions caused their relationship to fracture. Despite this rift, Jung's work continued to evolve and he further developed his own theories such as the collective unconscious and archetypal phenomena.

Jung's personal life included a marriage to Emma Rauschenbach and an extramarital affair with Sabina Spielrein. Emma played an active role in supporting her husband's research and became a noted psychoanalyst herself. Together they had five children. Throughout his career, Jung sought to integrate spiritual and psychological aspects into his work, making him a unique figure within the field of psychology. His writings were published both during his lifetime and posthumously, solidifying his status as one of the most significant figures in psychological history

✵ 26. July 1875 – 6. June 1961  •  Other names C. G. Jung, Carl Jung
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C.G. Jung Quotes

“We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.”

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“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”

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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”

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“The gods have become our diseases.”

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“The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely… Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.”

C.G. Jung book Man and His Symbols

Source: Man and His Symbols

“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”

C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.”

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“The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”

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“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”

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“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”

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“Explore daily the will of God.”

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“For better to come, good must stand aside.”

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“I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”

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“In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.”

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“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force”

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“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

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“I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.”

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“Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.”

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“Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.”

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“When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.”

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“For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.”

C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul

p. 49 http://books.google.com/books?id=U6lMnx8AQsYC&amp;q=%22The+meeting+of+two+personalities+is+like+the+contact+of+two+chemical+substances+if+there+is+any+reaction+both+are%22+%22transformed%22&amp;pg=PA49#v=onepage <br class="br">Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) <br class="br">Variant: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. <br class="br">Source: Psychological Reflections: A New Anthology of His Writings 1905-61

“Creative power is mightier than its possessor.”

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“Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.”

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“Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”

C.G. Jung book Man and His Symbols

Source: Man and His Symbols

“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

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“The sure path can only lead to death.”

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“Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious”

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“We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”

C.G. Jung book Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

“His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.”

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“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

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“Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.”

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“Everyone is in love with his own ideas”

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“Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.”

C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.”

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Psychology and Alchemy (1944)
Source: Dreams

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
Context: For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

“The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.

(on being 36 yrs old)”

C.G. Jung book Symbols of Transformation

Source: Symbols of Transformation

“That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves”

C.G. Jung book Symbols of Transformation

Source: Symbols of Transformation