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Carl Jung, born on July 26, 1875, and died on June 6, 1961, was a renowned Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist. His theories have had a profound impact on fields such as psychology, psychiatry, and religious studies. Jung proposed the theory of personality types, the concept of the collective unconscious, and founded analytical psychology.

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“Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.”

World Kind Earnestness

Book:The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

“Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”

World Mind Doe Light Darkness Figures Conscious Shadow Ideals Western Characteristics Latter Enlightened Conception Filling Procedures Confrontation Disagreeable Conscious Mind Sith

Author:Carl Jung

“So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.”

Men World Stills Character Form Personality Bases Psychological Symbols Unconscious Conception Cosmic Components Astrology Projection Transcendent Outside World

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“Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.”

World Doe Individuality Oneself Individualization

Book:The structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

“It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.”

Ifs Men World Way Philosophy Reality Seems Existence Seeking Stranger Symbolic

Book:The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.”

Ifs Knows World Asks Who You Are

Author:Carl Jung

“The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.”

World Whole This World Incredibles Unexpected

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.”

Men World Thread

Author:Carl Jung

“We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.”

World Whole Happens This World Infinite Incredibles Mysterious Unexpected Inexplicable Mysterious Things

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“Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.”

People World Imagine Assuming

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.”

World Giving Mind Sound Color Stores

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“Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.”

Men World Feels Involved Cosmos Our World Isolated

Book:The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

“Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even”

World Real Matter Reality Form Materials Psychics Indirect Material World Inference Hypothetical

Author:Carl Jung

“Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.”

World Humans Whole Wanted Nature Wonder Alive Stones Essence Plant Marvelous Steep

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

About the Author

Born: July 26, 1875
Died: June 6, 1961
Known for: Psychiatrist
Quotes: 862

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