Home / Quotes / Quote by Carl Jung

Quote by Carl Jung

“In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.”

Quote by Carl Jung

Author

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. more

You May Also Like

“The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.”

Men Trying Force Realizing Educated Revolutionary Latter Inferiors Educated Man

Book:Psychology and Religion

Source: Psychology and Religion

“In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.”

Age Half Degrees Ideals Errors Conviction Contrary Former Opposition Recognizing Hostility Validity Untruth Weighing Sensing

Author:Carl Jung

“If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important”

Ifs Knows Humans Doe Important Soul Facts Faith Powerful Accepting Cold Concern Absolutes My Soul Impulse Human Experience Leaving Me

Author:Carl Jung

“The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.”

Knows Asks Natural Numbers Class Taken Teacher Mathematics Affair Terror Dare Granted Torture Sheer Intimidated Algebra Taken For Granted Incomprehension Perfectly Natural

Author:Carl Jung

“Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it”

Ifs Men Want Whole Individual Chance Doubt Imagine Personality Conscious Shadow No Doubt Carrie Good Person Dark Side Inferiority Blackness Embodiment Correcting

Author:Carl 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

“Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.”

Spiritual Spirituality Intellect Fallen Dwelling

Book:The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.”

Death Purpose Nature Draws Curtains Farce

Author:Francois Rabelais

“One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.”

Men Joy Grief Laughing He Man Laughter Inches

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?”

Able Leadership Discipline Command Self Discipline

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel