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you are boys, your God is a woman. If you are women, your God is a boy. If you are men, your God is a maiden. The God is where you are not. So: it is wise that one has a God; this serves for your perfection. A maiden is the pregnant future. A boy is the engendering future. A woman is: having given birth. A man is: having engendered.
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C.G. Jung |
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7941611
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The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself.
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mental-health
philosophy
politics
psychology
state
system
the-self
truth
welfare
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C.G. Jung |
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94a744f
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Even the most carefully defined philosophical or mathematical concept, which we are sure does not contain more than we have put into it, is nevertheless more than we assume. It is a psychic event and as such partly unknowable. The very numbers you use in counting are more than you take them to be. They are at the same time mythological elements (for the Pythagoreans, they were even divine); but you are certainly unaware of this when you use..
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C.G. Jung |
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3d78177
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Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, "bombastic" style full of neologisms which might be described as "power-words." This symptom is observable not only in the psychiatric clinic but also among certain modern philosophers, and, above all, whenever anything unworthy of belief has to be insisted on in the teeth of i..
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bombast
grandiosity
neologisms
paracelsus
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C.G. Jung |
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18a5a7f
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The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own.
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C.G. Jung |
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4b32a5f
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the spirit of the depths teaches me that I am a servant, in fact the servant of a child. This dictum was repugnant to me and I hated it. But I had to recognize and accept that my soul is a child
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C.G. Jung |
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571bcfb
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Consciousness is a precondition of being.
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C.G. Jung |
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ff139d8
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Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People
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C.G. Jung |
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54f468b
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Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun.
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C.G. Jung |
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82322e0
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The more civilized, the more conscious and complicated a man is, the less he is able to follow his instincts. His complicated living conditions and the influence of his environment are so strong that they drown the quiet voice of nature. Opinions, beliefs, theories, and collective tendencies appear in its stead and back up all the aberrations of the conscious mind. Deliberate attention should then be given to the unconscious so that the com..
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C.G. Jung |
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Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious.
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C.G. Jung |
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046bc6a
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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.
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C.G. Jung |
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2e9de1b
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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.
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C.G. Jung |
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01c9c2f
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I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope, my mind's eye a mirror that reflects a small concern of the world, and my ideas - a subjective confession.
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C.G. Jung |
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4e8ef7a
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Let man but accumulate his materials of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use.
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C.G. Jung |
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e3912f0
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This formulation will not please the mass man or the collective believer. For the former the policy of the State is the supreme principle of thought and action. Indeed, this was the purpose for which he was enlightened, and accordingly the mass man grants the individual a right to exist only in so far as he is a function of the State. The believer, on the other hand, while admitting that the State has a moral and factual claim on him, confe..
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C.G. Jung |
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434b9f1
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Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment.
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C.G. Jung |
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b46adcc
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there is good reason for supposing that the archetypes are the unconscious images of the instincts themselves, in other words, that they are patterns of instinctual behaviour.
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C.G. Jung |
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37f3665
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To cherish secrets and to restrain emotions are psychic misdemeanours for which nature finally visits us with sickness--that is, when we do these things in private. But when they are done in communion with others they satisfy nature and may even count as useful virtues. It is only restraint practised in and for oneself that is unwholesome. It is as if man had an inalienable right to behold all that is dark, imperfect, stupid and guilty in h..
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C.G. Jung |
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845f7f3
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It is the growth of consciousness which we must thank for the existence of problems; they are the dubious gift of civilization. It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness.
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C.G. Jung |
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32b8ac6
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Acesta este pasul pe care Zarathustra nu l-a putut face: pasul catre ,,omul cel mai urat", omul adevarat. Impotrivirea si frica fata de el dovedesc cat de mare este puterea de atractie si de seductie a ceea ce este inferior. Separarea de inferior nu este o solutie."
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superman
zarathustra
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C.G. Jung |
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6b9dc7a
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an chh khh m khwdaghy nshy z tmdn my nmym, bh Twr jdy z Gryz Slymn fSlh grfth st. nsn `Sr HDr bh `lt shhr nshyny t Hdy bh qdrt rdh w khtyr dst yfth w bdwn twsl bh d` w srwd w dhl [dr rqS hy mdhhby w jdwgry], khr khwd r b khrayy lzm pysh bbrd. m b hmh y mnTqy shdn w khr bwdn, nyrwhyy drwn wst khh khrj z khntrl w hstnd. yzdn w hrymnni nsn z byn nrfth nd, blkhh tGyyr nm ddh nd. yn nyrwh mdm nsn r dr by qrry, DTrb hy mbhm, pychydgy rwny, shthy ..
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modernity
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C.G. Jung |
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98a9bde
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If man no longer finds any meaning in his life, it makes no difference whether he wastes away under a communist or a capitalist regime. Only if he can use his freedom to create something meaningful is it relevant that he should be free. That is why finding the inner meaning of life is more important to the individual than anything else, and why the process of individuation must be given priority.
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C.G. Jung |
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Every emotional state produces an alteration of consciousness which Janet called abaissement du niveau mental; that is to say there is a certain narrowing of consciousness and a corresponding strengthening of the unconscious which, particularly in the case-of strong affects, is noticeable even to the layman.
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C.G. Jung |
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eeab5a4
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If a blind man can gradually be helped to see it is not to be expected that he will at once discern new truths with an eagle eye. One must be glad if he sees anything at all, and if he begins to understand what he sees.
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C.G. Jung |
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17e41ab
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Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.
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past
present
thinking
thoughts
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C.G. Jung |
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We do not base botany upon the old-fashioned division into useful and useless plants, or our zoology upon the naive distinction between harmless and dangerous animals. But we still complacently assume that consciousness is sense and the unconsciousness is nonsense. In science such an assumption would be laughed out of court. Do microbes, for instance, make sense or nonsense? Whatever the unconscious may be, it is a natural phenomenon produc..
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C.G. Jung |
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8028eb9
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The sad truth is that man's real life consists of inexorable opposites--day and night, wellbeing and suffering, birth and death, good and evil. We are not even sure that the one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life and the world are a battleground,
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C.G. Jung |
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There is only one answer to this: the ancients, with a few illustrious exceptions, entirely lacked the capacity to concentrate their interest on the transformations of inanimate matter and to reproduce the natural process artificially, by which means alone they could have gained control of the forces of nature. What they lacked was training in directed thinking.15 The secret of cultural development is the mobility and disposability of psych..
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C.G. Jung |
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I was twenty-four when I read 'Zarathustra'. I could not understand it, but it made a profound impression upon me, and I felt an analogy between it and the girl in some peculiar way. Later, of course, I found that 'Zarathustra' was written from the unconscious and is a picture of what that man should be. If Zarathustra had come through as a reality for Nietzsche instead of remaining in his 'spirit world,' the intellectual Nietzsche would ha..
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C.G. Jung |
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But the very fact that this process is unconscious gives us the reason why man has thought of everything except the psyche in his attempts to explain myths. He simply didn't know that the psyche contains all the images that have ever given rise to myths, and that our unconscious is an acting and suffering subject with an inner drama which primitive man rediscovers, by means of analogy, in the processes of nature both great and small.11 [9]
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C.G. Jung |
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91684a9
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Where there is a will there is a way!
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C.G. Jung |
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841e1c3
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It even seems as if the ego has not been produced by nature to follow its own arbitrary impulses to an unlimited extent, but to help to make real the totality-the whole psyche. It is the ego that serves to light up the entire system, allowing it to become conscious and thus to be realized. If, for example, I have an artistic talent of which my ego is not conscious, nothing will happen to it. The gift may as well be non-existent. Only if my ..
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C.G. Jung |
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294c2f9
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You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman a masculine soul.
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femininity
masculine
masculinity
relationships
soul
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C.G. Jung |
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8589a69
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in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists.
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C.G. Jung |
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e49996d
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It is the face of his own evil shadow that grins at Western man from the other side of the Iron curtain.
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C.G. Jung |
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b372e36
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That the gods die from time to time is due to man's sudden discovery that they do not mean anything, that they are made by human hands, useless idols of wood and stone.
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C.G. Jung |
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31a9e68
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But he (Nietzsche) never would be able to realize that he is like ordinary people and he should realize that too. For instance, if he were really a sage, he would say to himself "Go out into the street, go to the little people, be one of them and see how you like it, how much you enjoy being such a small thing. That is yourself." And so he would learn that he was not his own greatness."
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C.G. Jung |
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015c433
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It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else.
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psychology
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C.G. Jung |
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In other words, our conscious representations are sometimes ordered (or arranged in a pattern) before they have become conscious to us. The 18th-century German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss gives an example of an experience of such an unconscious order of ideas: He says that he found a certain rule in the theory of numbers "not by painstaking research, but by the Grace of God, so to speak. The riddle solved itself as lightning strikes,..
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C.G. Jung |
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5f781a9
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You know, it is sometimes an ideal not to have any kind of convictions or feelings that are not based upon reality. One must even educate people...that their emotions ought to have a real basis, that they cannot swear hell and damnation at somebody on a mere assumption, and that there are absolute reasons why they are not justified in doing such a thing. They really have to learn that their feelings should be based on facts.
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C.G. Jung |
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e1b7952
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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 g..
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C.G. Jung |
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77eb710
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The present day shows with appalling clarity how little able people are to let the other man's argument count, although this capacity is a fundamental and indispensable condition for any human community. Everyone who proposes to come to terms with himself must reckon with this basic problem. For, to the degree that he does not admit the validity of the other person, he denies the "other" within himself the right to exist--and vice versa. Th..
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C.G. Jung |
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643fa91
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Suma unui milion de zerouri nu face nici macar unu.
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mass
psychology
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C.G. Jung |