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Classic quotes from psychologist Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychologist. In 1907, he began to cooperate with Freud and developed and promoted psychoanalytic theory for 6 years. Later, he was at odds with Freud's ideas and parted ways. He founded Jungian personality analysis psychology theory and came up with the concept of "complex". The concept divides personality into two types: introversion and extroversion, and advocates dividing personality into three levels: consciousness, personal unconsciousness and collective unconsciousness. He served as President of the International Psychoanalytical Society, President of the International Psychotherapy Association, etc., and founded the Jungian School of Psychology. He died in Switzerland on June 6, 1961. His theories and ideas still have a profound impact on psychological research.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Children are educated by adults’ cultivation rather than preaching.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Man needs difficulties, and difficulties are necessary for mental health.

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.

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Overcoming the most intense conflicts gives us a stable and transcendent sense of security and tranquility. It is this explosion of intense conflict that is needed to achieve beneficial and lasting psychological safety and tranquility.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Without pain, there is no awakening of consciousness.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

Here we must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd?

Here we must ask: Have I had any religious experience, any direct connection with God that would give me a certainty that would save me as an individual from dissolving into the crowd?

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

If the subconscious does not enter consciousness, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. .

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

Art works should transcend the world of personal life and face the poet's spirit and heart, just like people face the spirit and heart of mankind.

It is, moreover, only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that we experience the helpful powers of our own natures.

And, only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness, Only then can we experience the positive power of our own nature.

In some way or other we are part of a single,

all-embracing psyche, a single "greatest man".

In a sense , we belong to a single all-encompassing mind, to a single "total man."

What is stirred in us is that faraway

background, those immemorial patterns of the human mind, which we have not acquired but have inherited from the dim ages of the past.

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What is evoked deep within us is that distant background—ancient human psychological patterns that are inherited rather than learned and that we have inherited from generations past that have faded.

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.?.?.? . What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

I always feel that life is like a plant sprouting from underground rhizomes. The real life of life is invisible, hidden deep in the rhizomes underground, and the visible bits that emerge above ground survive only one summer. What we see are clusters of flowers that will disappear, but the roots will remain.

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

Sometimes I feel that I stretch out to cover the earth and extend into everything: I feel that I live in every tree, in the waves, in the endless traffic. Living among fixed clouds and animals, living in the cycle of seasons.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth. It draws us further and further away from the mysterious world that was once our natural home.

A belief proves to me only the phenomenon of belief, not the content of the

belief.

In my opinion, a belief is just a belief Phenomenon, the content of belief is insignificant.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

In a sense, the greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. The big and most important problems are unsolvable. We cannot solve them, we can only grow beyond them.

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

Only when people can look into the depths of their own hearts. When he is around, his vision will become clearer. He who looks outward is in a dream, and he who looks inward is awake.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the

unconscious.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the subconscious. out content.

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

Dreams are small secret windows opened in the most hidden corners of the soul. The night sky of the universe it leads to is spiritual, long before the emergence of ego-consciousness. Already so, and no matter how the boundaries of our self-awareness expand, they will always lead to the night sky of the soul.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of

ourselves.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Understand yourself better.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

In the torrent of life, no one is without trouble.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

The influence of parents’ unlived life on the people around them, especially their own children, is unparalleled.

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

The meeting of two souls is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Exposure: The slightest reaction can completely change them.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

For anything, to change it, we must first accept it. Condemnation does not liberate but only oppresses.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. The purpose is to ignite a little light in the darkness of pure existence.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.

The way we look at things, not on how they are themselves, determines everything.