I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung 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. Carl Jung hate love people All fanaticism is repressed doubt. Carl Jung fanaticism repressed doubt In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. Carl Jung speak dream way I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious. Carl Jung collective-unconscious patterns men Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted. Carl Jung human-life fulfilled inspirational 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. Carl Jung office personality men Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one. Carl Jung soul god men The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire. Carl Jung passion artist war The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul. Carl Jung dream doors profound All true things must change and only that which changes remains true. Carl Jung true-things remains spiritual No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. Carl Jung roots tree inspirational Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Jung depression witty funny At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things. Carl Jung ignorance numbers men Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything. Carl Jung mood risk love Simple things are always the most difficult. Carl Jung simple-things difficult simple Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being. Carl Jung memories-dreams-reflections consciousness world The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. 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. Carl Jung epidemics men war Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis. Carl Jung essentials inspiration listening The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. Carl Jung innovation energy opposites The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. Carl Jung leadership men mean
