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The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams QUOTES

The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams QUOTES

1 " All the corpses in the world are chemically identical, but living individuals are not. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

2 " Consciousness is a precondition of being. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

3 " It is not that present-day man is capable of greater evil than the man of antiquity or the primitive. He merely has incomparably more effective means with which to realize his propensity to evil. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

4 " Often in the case of these sudden transformations one can prove that an archetype has been at work for a long time in the unconscious, skilfully arranging circumstances that will unavoidably lead to a crisis. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

5 " And just as the typical neurotic is unconscious of his shadow side, so the normal individual, like the neurotic, sees his shadow in his neighbour or in the man beyond the great divide. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

6 " in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

7 " Slavery and rebellion are inseparable correlates. Hence, rivalry for power and exaggerated distrust pervade the entire organism from top to bottom. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

8 " Myths, however, consist of symbols that were not invented but happened. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

9 " The result is that modern man knows himself only in so far as he can become conscious of himself—a capacity largely dependent on environmental conditions, knowledge and control of which necessitated or suggested certain modifications of his original instinctive tendencies. His consciousness therefore orients itself chiefly by observing and investigating the world around him, and it is to the latter’s peculiarities that he must adapt his psychic and technical resources. This task is so exacting, and its fulfilment so profitable, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

10 " all the higher grades of science, imagination and intuition play an increasingly important role over and above intellect and its capacity for application. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

11 " Although our civilized consciousness has separated itself from the instincts, the instincts have not disappeared; they have merely lost their contact with consciousness. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

12 " This is an aspect of the modern “cultural” mind that is well worth looking into. It shows an alarming degree of dissociation and psychological confusion. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

13 " To the scientific mind, such phenomena as symbolic ideas are most irritating, because they cannot be formulated in a way that satisfies our intellect and logic. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

14 " In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

15 " The forlorn state of consciousness in our world is due primarily to loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt for the merely natural and accidental, for all irrational data—including the objective psyche, which is everything that consciousness is not. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

16 " Even a scientist is a human being, and it is quite natural that he, like others, hates the things he cannot explain and thus falls victim to the common illusion that what we know today represents the highest summit of knowledge. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

17 " In the name of the multitude he was expressing the fact that Western man is in danger of losing his shadow altogether, of identifying himself with his fictive personality and the world with the abstract picture painted by scientific rationalism. His spiritual and moral opponent, who is just as real as he, no longer dwells in his own breast but beyond the geographical line of division, which no longer represents an outward political barrier but splits off the conscious from the unconscious man more and more menacingly. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

18 " One even regrets the loss of such convictions. Since it is a matter of invisible and unknowable things (God is beyond human understanding, and immortality cannot be proved), why should we bother about evidence or truth? Suppose we did not know and understand the need for salt in our food, we would nevertheless profit from its use. Even if we should assume that salt is an illusion of our taste-buds, or a superstition, it would still contribute to our wellbeing. Why, then, should we deprive ourselves of views that prove helpful in crises and give a meaning to our existence? And how do we know that such ideas are not true? Many people would agree with me if I stated flatly that such ideas are illusions. What they fail to realize is that this denial amounts to a “belief” and is just as impossible to prove as a religious assertion "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

19 " If, for instance, I determine the weight of each stone in a bed of pebbles and get an average weight of five ounces, this tells me very little about the real nature of the pebbles. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

20 " absolute reality has predominantly the character of irregularity. "

― C.G. Jung , The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams