Quotes about men
men color psychics
Colors express the main psychic functions of man. Carl Jung
men earthquakes soul
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.
men way blind
A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.
men law justice
Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself
men medicine leader
Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.
men evil world
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
men thinking our-world
We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods
men modern force
Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.
men ideas giving
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
men thinking forever
I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
men thinking historical
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.
men tasks belief
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
men age levels
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.
men air light
The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
men decision instigators
It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.
men culture denial
It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.
men our-world doubt
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.
men organs access
The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.
men giving return
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
men way greatest-man
In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'
men intelligent illusion
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
men hatred quality
A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
men mind blind
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
men tongue speak
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
men good-man aspire
I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.
men psychics understanding
The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.
men healthy doe
The healthy man does not torture others.
men compassion planets
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
men self evil
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
men individuality resistance
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
men light order
The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.
men office personality
Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.
men psychics self
The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.