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A more or less superficial layer of the unconscious is undoubtedly personal. I call it the "personal unconscious". But this personal layer rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal experience and is not a personal acquisition but is inborn. This deeper layer I call the "collective unconscious". (Carl Jung)
We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols. View quote
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not. View quote
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While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way. View quote
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The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. View quote
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Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. View quote
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Not only do I leave the door open for the Christian message, but I consider it of central importance for Western man. View quote
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It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. ... No language exists that cannot be misused. View quote
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No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. View quote
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Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science. View quote
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We Shall Naturally look round in vain the macrophysical world for acausal events, for the simple reason that we cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist. (Carl Jung)
Every interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. An obscure dream, taken by itself, can rarely be interpreted with any certainty, so that I attach little importance to the interpretation of single dreams. View quote
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The great problems of life - sexuality, of course, among others - are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. View quote
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The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. View quote
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Every archetype is capable of endless development and differentiation. View quote
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The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. View quote
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Whereas the personal unconscious consists for the most part of "complexes", the content of the collective unconscious is made up essentially of "archetypes". View quote
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I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. View quote
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Well, I was sitting opposite of her one day, with my back to the window, listening to her flow of rhetoric. She had an impressive dream the night before, in which someone had given her a golden scarab-a costly piece of jewellery. While she was still telling me this dream, I heard something behind me gently tapping on the window. I turned round and saw that it was a fairly large flying insect that was knocking against the window from outside in the obvious effort to get into the dark room. This seemed to me very strange. I opened the window and immediately and caught the insect in the air as it flew in. It was a scarabaeid beetle, or common rose-chafer, whose gold-green color most nearly resembles that of a golden scarab. I handed the beetle to my patient with the words "Here is your scarab." View quote
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Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. View quote
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I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons. (Carl Jung)
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times. View quote
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What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Carl Jung

Occupation: Swiss Psychiatrist
Born: July 26, 1875
Died: June 6, 1961
Quotes count: 294
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