Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jungwas a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death...
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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
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In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.
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Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.
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Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.
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Error is just as important a condition of life as truth
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Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.
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Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.
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The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum
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Thank God I'm Jung and not a Jungian.
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You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves
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Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking withing them. It is unfortunately only too real, which is why psychology must insist on the reality of evil and must reject any definition that regards it as insignificant or actually non-existent.