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Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
Essayist
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Kesswil TG
C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
C. G. Yungu
Carl Gustav Jung
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As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
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Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
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The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.
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What we lack is intensity of life.
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In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'
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To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.
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In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.
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The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
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The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
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Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.
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Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.
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The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
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The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.
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Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.
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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
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Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.
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Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.
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But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
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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.
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