Carl Gustav Jung citáty

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„Človek nedosiahne osvietenie imagináciou svetla, ale tým, že si uvedomí temnotu.“

„Nie som tým, čo sa mi prihodilo, ale tým, čím som sa rozhodol stať.“

„Osamelosť nevzniká z toho, že človek okolo seba nemá žiadnych ľudí, ale vzniká skôr z neschopnosti komunikovať o veciach, ktoré sa mu zdajú byť dôležité, alebo zo zastávania určitých názorov, ktoré ostatní považujú za neprípustné.“

„V každom chaose je vesmír a v každom neporiadku je tajný poriadok.“

„Ako dieťa som sa cítil osamelý a stále sa tak cítim, pretože poznám veci a musím poukazovať na veci, o ktorých ostatní zjavne nič nevedia a väčšinou ani nechcú vedieť.“

„Výsadou celého života je stať sa tým, kým skutočne ste.“

„Neexistuje žiadna svedomitosť bez bolesti.“

„Aj tá najmenšia vec, ktorá má svoj zmysel, má v živote väčšiu hodnotu ako tá najväčšia vec, ktorá nemá žiaden.“

„Topánky, ktoré sedia jednému, tlačia druhého; neexistuje recept na život, ktorý by vyhovoval všetkým prípadom.“

„Život je zrodením k smrti.“

„Ľudia urobia čokoľvek, nech je to už akokoľvek absurdné, aby sa vyhli tomu, aby čelili svoje vlastnej duši.“

„Ako sme tomu porozumeli, jediným zmyslom ľudskej existencie je zapaľovať svetlo v temnotách obyčajného bytia.“

„Rozmýšľať je ťažké, preto väčšina ľudí súdi.“

„Čomu odolávaš, to pretrváva.“

„Noci prostredníctvom snov rozprávajú príbehy, na ktoré deň zabudol.“

„Svet visí na veľmi tenkej niti a tou je ľudská duša.“

„Vaše vízie budú jasné len vtedy, keď sa pozriete do svojho vlastného srdca. Kto sa pozerá len smerom von, sníva; kto sa pozerá dovnútra, prebúdza sa.“

„Ste to, čo robíte, nie to, čo hovoríte, že urobíte.“

„Nevedomý duch človeka vidí správne, aj keď je vedomý rozum zaslepený a bezmocný.“

„Predpokladom dobrého manželstva je povolenie byť neverný.“

„Kto sa pozerá von, sníva, kto sa pozerá dovnútra, prebúdza sa.“

„Všetko, čo nás dráždi na iných, môže viesť k pochopeniu seba samého.“

„Najhrozivejšia vec je úplne prijať seba samého.“

„Ak je cesta pred vami voľná, pravdepodobne ste na ceste niekoho iného.“

„Koho v láske sklamú, ten je vždy vinný.“

„Kyvadlo mysle kmitá medzi zmyslom a nezmyslom, nie medzi správnym a nesprávnym.“

„Každá forma závislosti je zlá, bez ohľadu na to, či ide o alkohol, morfium alebo idealizmus.“

„Ak mám byť úplný, musím mať aj temnú stránku.“

„Aký bezútešný by bol svet bez odchýliek od pravidiel.“

„Celý človek je ten, kto nielen ide s Bohom, ale aj zápasí s diablom.“

„Všetko závisí od toho, ako sa na veci pozeráme, a nie od toho, aké sú samy osebe.“

„Poznanie sa nezakladá len na pravde, ale aj na omyle.“

„Človek je totiž paradoxný, a to sa zmeniť nedá.“

„Ukáž mi príčetného muža a vyliečim ho za teba.“

„Prostredníctvom pýchy vždy klameme samých seba. Ale hlboko pod povrchom priemerného svedomia nám tichý, malý hlas hovorí, že niečo nie je v poriadku.“

„Bez tejto hry fantázie sa ešte nikdy nezrodilo žiadne tvorivé dielo. Dlh, ktorý máme voči našej fantázii, je nevyčísliteľný.“

„Svet sa vás bude pýtať, kto ste, a ak to neviete, svet vám to prezradí.“

„Chyby sú napokon základom pravdy a ak muž nevie, čo je nejaká vec, vie aspoň to, čím nie je.“

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

“A more or less superficial layer of the unconscious is undoubtedly personal. I call it the "personal unconscious". But this personal layer rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal experience and is not a personal acquisition but is inborn. This deeper layer I call the "collective unconscious".”

“We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols.”

“Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.”

“Any theory based on experience is necessarily statistical; that is to say, it formulates an ideal average which abolishes all exceptions at either end of the scale and replaces them by an abstract mean.”

“Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.”

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.”

“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”

“… anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.”

“When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.”

“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)”

“When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love”

“This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.”

“Among all my patients in the second half of life—that is to say, over thirty-five—there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.”

“If you play close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”

“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”