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The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (Collected Works, Vol 18) QUOTES

The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (Collected Works, Vol 18) QUOTES

1 " We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future. "

― C.G. Jung , The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (Collected Works, Vol 18)

2 " To many death seems to be a brutal and meaningless end to a short and meaningless existence. So it looks, if seen from the surface and from the darkness.

But when we penetrate the depths of the soul and when we try to understand its mysterious life, we shall discern that death is not a meaningless end, the mere vanishing into nothingness — it is an accomplishment, a ripe fruit on the tree of life.

Nor is death an abrupt extinction, but a goal that has been unconsciously lived and worked for during half a lifetime. "

― C.G. Jung , The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (Collected Works, Vol 18)

3 " As a psychologist I am deeply interested in mental disturbances, particularly when they infect whole nations. I want to emphasize that I despise politics wholeheartedly: thus I am neither a Bolshevik, nor a National Socialist, nor an Anti-Semite. I am a neutral Swiss and even in my own country I am uninterested in politics, because I am convinced that 99 per cent of politics are mere symptoms and anything but a cure for social evils. About 50 per cent of politics is definitely obnoxious inasmuch as it poisons the utterly incompetent mind of the masses. We are on guard against contagious diseases of the body, but we are exasperatingly careless when it comes to the even more dangerous collective diseases of the mind. "

― C.G. Jung , The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (Collected Works, Vol 18)