Quotes by Jung, Carl

"I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice."

Jung, Carl on virtue   

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."

Jung, Carl on vision
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"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."

Jung, Carl on wickedness   

"The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid."

Jung, Carl on youth   

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

Jung, Carl on addiction
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Jung, Carl on adventure
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"The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age."

Jung, Carl on cinema   

"A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead."

Jung, Carl on committees and meetings   

"The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead."

Jung, Carl on committees and meetings   

"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."

Jung, Carl on conflict   

"The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life."

Jung, Carl on consciousness   

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Jung, Carl on cooperation
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"Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place."

Jung, Carl on creativity   

"We are called to achieve our particular ideosyncracies as our gift to the collective."

Jung, Carl on ideosyncracy   

"Many cultural manifestations of religiosity are surreptitious efforts to avoid actual religious experence of God…Fundamentalism spends its anxious time trying to defend the secondary minutae of historic claims."

Jung, Carl on fundamentalism   

"As with the fantasy of romantic love, perhaps the idealized family fails because we ask too much of it."

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"Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity."

Jung, Carl on ambiguity   

"The suppression of doubt is the secret seed of fanaticism in all its forms"

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