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.“

“It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.”

“That higher and "complete" man is begotten by the "unknown" father and born from Wisdom, and it is he who, in the figure of the puer aeternus—"vultu mutabilis albus et ater"—represents our totality, which transcends consciousness. It was this boy into whom Faust had to change, abandoning his inflated onesidedness which saw the devil only outside. Christ's "Except ye become as little children" is a prefiguration of this, for in them the opposites lie close together; but what is meant is the boy who is born from the maturity of the adult man, and not the unconscious child we would like to remain.”

“Aion is a child at play, gambling; a child’s is the kingship. Telesphorus traverses the dark places of the world, like a star flashing from the deep, leading the way to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams.”

“The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.”

“You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.”

“My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. […] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.”

“The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.”

“There is no question but that Hitler belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. As somebody commented about him at the last Nürnberg party congress, since the time of Mohammed nothing like it has been seen in this world. His body does not suggest strength. The outstanding characteristic of his physiognomy is its dreamy look. I was especially struck by that when I saw pictures taken of him in the Czechoslovakian crisis; there was in his eyes the look of a seer. This markedly mystic characteristic of Hitler's is what makes him do things which seem to us illogical, inexplicable, and unreasonable. … So you see, Hitler is a medicine man, a spiritual vessel, a demi-deity or, even better, a myth.”

“It is a woman's outstanding characteristic that she can do anything for the love of a man. But those women who can achieve something important for the love of a thing are most exceptional, because this does not really agree with their nature. Love for a thing is a man's prerogative. But since masculine and feminine elements are united in our human nature, a man can live in the feminine part of himself, I and a woman in her masculine part. None the less the feminine element in man is only something in the background, as is the masculine element in woman. If one lives out the opposite sex in oneself one is living in one's own background, and one's real individuality suffers. A man should live as a man and a woman as a woman.”

“The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..”

“The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. Here we must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd?”

“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”

“We know as little of a supreme being as of Matter. But there is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of Matter. The world beyond is reality, and experiential fact. We only don't understand it.”

“When we assume God to be a guiding principle—well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.”

“The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."”

“The persona, the ideal picture of a man as he should be, is inwardly compensated by feminine weakness, and as the individual outwardly plays the strong man, so he becomes inwardly a woman, i. e., the anima, for it is the anima that reacts to the persona. But because the inner world is dark and invisible to the extraverted consciousness, and because a man is all the less capable of conceiving his weaknesses the more he is identified with the persona, the persona's counterpart, the anima, remains completely in the dark and is at once projected, so that our hero comes under the heel of his wife's slipper. If this results in a considerable increase of her power, she will acquit herself none too well. She becomes inferior, thus providing her husband with the welcome proof that it is not he, the hero, who is inferior in private, but his wife. In return the wife can cherish the illusion, so attractive to many, that at least she has married a hero, unperturbed by her own uselessness. This little game of illusion is often taken to be the whole meaning of life.”

“We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild god.)”

“Sometimes I had an overwhelming urge to speak, not about that, but only to hint that there were some curious things about me which no one knew of. I wanted to find out whether other people had undergone similar experiences. I never succeeded in discovering so much as a trace of them in others. As a result, I had the feeling that I was either outlawed or elect, accursed or blessed.”

“We must now turn to the question of how the existence of archetypes can be proved. Since archetypes are supposed to produce certain psychic forms, we must discuss how and where one can get hold of the material demonstrating these forms. The main source, then, is dreams, which have the advantage of being involuntary, spontaneous products of nature not falsified by any conscious purpose. By questioning the individual one can ascertain which of the motifs appearing in the dream are known to him… Consequently, we must look for motifs which could not possibly be known to the dreamer and yet behave functionally of the archetype known from historical sources.”

“Reason alone does not suffice.”

“For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i. e., the anima projected on to the world.”

“Because we cannot discover God's throne in the sky with a radiotelescope or establish (for certain) that a beloved father or mother is still about in a more or less corporeal form, people assume that such ideas are "not true." I would rather say that they are not "true" enough, for these are conceptions of a kind that have accompanied human life from prehistoric times, and that still break through into consciousness at any provocation.”

“Our psychology is … a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. [It] Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.”

“Whereas logic and objectivity are usually the predominant features of a man's outer attitude, or are at least regarded as ideals, in the case of a woman it is feeling. But in the soul it is the other way round: inwardly it is the man who feels, and the woman who reflects. Hence a man's greater liability to total despair, while a woman can always find comfort and hope; accordingly a man is more likely to put an end to himself than a woman. However much a victim of social circumstances a woman may be, as a prostitute for instance, a man is no less a victim of impulses from the unconscious, taking the form of alcoholism and other vices.”

“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”

“Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.””

“Called or uncalled, God will be present.”
Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit.

“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!”

“This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well, but it is a goal that necessarily lies very far off because science, whenever possible, proceeds experimentally and in all cases statistically. Experiment, however, consists in asking a definite question which excludes as far as possible anything disturbing and irrelevant. It makes conditions, imposes them on Nature, and in this way forces her to give an answer to a question devised by man. She is prevented from answering out of the fullness of her possibilities since these possibilities are restricted as far as practible. For this purpose there is created in the laboratory a situation which is artificially restricted to the question which compels Nature to give an unequivocal answer. The workings of Nature in her unrestricted wholeness are completely excluded. If we want to know what these workings are, we need a method of inquiry which imposes the fewest possible conditions, or if possible no conditions at all, and then leave Nature to answer out of her fullness.”