Carl Gustav Jung Zitate

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35 Zitate über Selbstfindung, Psyche und persönliches Wachstum

„Ich bin nicht das, was mir passiert ist, sondern was ich beschlossen habe.“

„Du bist was du tust, nicht was du sagst.“

„Ohne Schmerzen kommt man nicht ins Bewusstsein.“

„Menschen tun alles, egal wie absurd, um ihrer eigenen Seele nicht zu begegnen.“

„Die Kenntnis der eigenen Dunkelheit ist die beste Methode, um mit den Dunkelheiten anderer Menschen umzugehen.“

„Das Individuum, das nicht in Gott verankert ist, vermag der physischen und moralischen Macht der Welt auf Grund seines persönlichen Dafürhaltens keinen Widerstand zu leisten. Dazu bedarf der Mensch der Evidenz seiner inneren, transzendenten Erfahrung, welche allein ihn vor dem sonst unvermeidlichen Abgleiten in die Vermassung bewahren kann.“

„Der Anblick des Bösen zündet Böses in der Seele an. Das ist unvermeidlich.“

„Es gibt sehr viel mehr Menschen, die Angst vor dem Unbewußten haben, als man erwarten würde. Sie haben schon Angst vor dem eigenen Schatten. Kommt man gar zu Anima und Animus, so steigert sie sich zur Panik.“

„Unsere Psychologie muß ans Leben heranreichen, sonst bleiben wir einfach im Mittelalter stecken.“

„Dummheit, Sünde, Krankheit, Alter und Tod bilden nach wie vor die dunkle Folie, von der sich des Lebens heiterer Glanz abhebt.“

„Die erdrückende Mehrzahl der Menschen ist gänzlich unfähig, sich indviduell in die Seele eines anderen zu versetzen. Dies ist saogar eine ganz seltene Kunst, die nicht einmal allzuweit reicht. Auch der Mensch, den wir am besten zu kennen vermeinen, und der uns selber bestätigt, daß wir ihn restlos verstehen, ist uns im Grunde genommen fremd. Er ist anders. Und das Äußerste und Beste, was wir zu tun vermögen, ist dieses Andere wenigstens zu ahnen, zu achten, und uns vor der gewaltigen Stupidität, es deuten wollen, zu hüten.“

„Man kann leicht verstehen, warum Menschen dazu neigen, die Botschaft ihrer Träume zu ignorieren oder sogar abzulehnen. Das Bewusstsein widerstrebt von Natur aus allem Unbewussten und Unbekannten.“

„Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.“

„Bis Sie das Unbewusste bewusst machen, wird es Ihr Leben lenken und Sie werden es Schicksal nennen.“

„Denken ist schwer, darum urteilen die Meisten.“

„In allem Chaos ist Kosmos und in aller Unordnung geheime Ordnung.“

„Das Privileg Ihres Lebens ist es, zu werden, wer Sie wirklich sind.“

„Wenn der Weg vor dir klar ist, dann bist du wahrscheinlich auf dem eines Anderen.“

„Soweit wir erkennen können, besteht der einzige Zweck der menschlichen Existenz darin, ein Licht in der Dunkelheit des bloßen Seins zu entzünden.“

„Ihre Visionen werden nur klar, wenn Sie in Ihr eigenes Herz schauen. Wer nur rausschaut, träumt; wer reinschaut, wacht auf.“

„Zeig mir einen gesunden Mann und ich werde ihn heilen.“

„Jede Form von Sucht ist schlecht, egal, ob die Droge Alkohol, Morphium oder Idealismus ist.“

„Als Kind habe ich mich allein gefühlt und bin es immer noch, weil ich Dinge weiß und auf Dinge hinweisen muss, von denen andere augenscheinlich nichts wissen und größtenteils nicht wissen wollen.“

„Eine große Wahrheit ist eine Wahrheit, deren Gegenteil immer noch eine Wahrheit ist."

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"La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido.“

„Das Pendel des Geistes schwankt zwischen Sinn und Unsinn, nicht zwischen richtig und falsch.“

„Alles, was uns an anderen irritiert, kann uns zu einem tieferen Verständnis von uns selbst führen.“

„Das Schrecklichste ist es, sich selbst vollständig zu akzeptieren.“

„Wo Licht ist muss es auch Schatten geben, und wo Schatten ist, gibt es Licht. Es gibt keinen Schatten ohne Licht und kein Licht ohne Schatten.“

„Früher oder später werden sich Atomphysik und Psychologie des Unbewußten in bedeutender Weise annähern, da beide, unabhängig voneinander und von entgegengesetzter Seite, in transzendentales Gebiet vorstoßen, jene mit der Vorstellung des Atoms, diese mit der des Archetypus.“

„Gatten lassen sich gegenseitig ihre Unbefriedigung entgelten.“

„Man sieht, was man am besten aus sich sehen kann.“

“Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.”

“All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.”

“Since [in the Middle Ages] the psychic relation to woman was expressed in the collective worship of Mary, the image of woman lost a value to which human beings had a natural right. This value could find its natural expression only through individual choice, and it sank into the unconscious when the individual form of expression was replaced by a collective one. In the unconscious the image of woman received an energy charge that activated the archaic and infantile dominants. And since all unconscious contents, when activated by dissociated libido, are projected upon the external object, the devaluation of the real woman was compensated by daemonic features. She no longer appeared as an object of love, but as a persecutor or witch. The consequence of increasing Mariolatry was the witch hunt,. that indelible blot on the later Middle Ages.”

“Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.”

“Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.”

“No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.”

“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”

“Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.”

“The more remote and unreal the personal mother is, the more deeply will the son's yearning for her clutch at his soul, awakening that primordial and eternal image of the mother for whose sake everything that embraces, protects, nourishes, and helps assumes maternal form, from the Alma Mater of the university to the personification of cities, countries, sciences and ideals.”

“I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.”

“All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge.”

“Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.”

“I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.”

“Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose. And whenever the conscious mind clings to hard and fast concepts and gets caught in its own rules and regulations - as is unavoidable and of the essence of civilized consciousness - nature pops up with her inescapable demands.”

“For lack of empirical data I have neither knowledge nor understanding of such forms of being, which are commonly called spiritual. …Nevertheless, we have good reason to suppose that behind this veil there exists the uncomprehended absolute object which affects and influences us—and to suppose it even, or particularly, in the case of psychic phenomena about which no verifiable statements can be made.”

“A mother-complex is not got rid of by blindly reducing the mother to human proportions. Besides that we run the risk of dissolving the experience "Mother" into atoms, thus destroying something supremely valuable and throwing away the golden key which a good fairy laid in our cradle. That is why mankind has always instinctively added the pre-existent divine pair to the personal parents-the "god"father and "god"-mother of the newborn child-so that, from sheer unconsciousness or shortsighted rationalism, he should never forget himself so far as to invest his own parents with divinity.”

“It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.”

“"Education to personality" has become a pedagogical ideal that turns its back upon the standardized-the collective and normal-human being. It thus fittingly recognizes the historical fact that the great, liberating deeds of world history have come from leading personalities and never from the inert mass that is secondary at all times and needs a demagogue if it is to move at all. The paean of the Italian nation is addressed to the personality of the Duce, and dirges of other nations lament the absence of great leaders.”

“Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin — and certainly a danger — to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.”

“It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.”

“The erotic instinct is something questionable, and will always be so whatever a future set of laws may have to say on the matter. It belongs, on the one hand, to the original animal nature of man, which will exist as long as man has an animal body. On the other hand, it is connected with the highest forms of the spirit. But it blooms only when the spirit and instinct are in true harmony. If one or the other aspect is missing, then an injury occurs, or at least there is a one-sided lack of balance which easily slips into the pathological. Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”

“Eros is a superhuman power which, like nature herself, allows itself to be conquered and exploited as though it were impotent. But triumph over nature is dearly paid for. Nature requires no explanations of principle, but asks only for tolerance and wise measure. "Eros is a mighty daemon," as the wise Diotima said to Socrates. We shall never get the better of him, or only to our own hurt. He is not the whole of our inward nature, though he is at least one of its essential aspects.”

“The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere, unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype. There is in the psyche some superior power, and if it is not consciously a god, it is the "belly" at least, in St. Paul's words. I therefore consider it wiser to acknowledge the idea of God consciously, for, if we do not, something else is made God, usually something quite inappropiate and stupid such as only an "enlightened" intellect could hatch forth.”

“As the animus is partial to argument, he can best be seen at work in disputes where both parties know they are right. Men can argue in a very womanish way, too, when they are anima - possessed and have thus been transformed into the animus of their own anima.”

“Why is psychology the youngest of the empirical sciences? Why have we not long since discovered the unconscious and raised up its treasure-house of eternal images? Simply because we had a religious formula for everything psychic — and one that is far more beautiful and comprehensive than immediate experience. Though the Christian view of the world has paled for many people, the symbolic treasure-rooms of the East are still full of marvels that can nourish for a long time to come the passion for show and new clothes. What is more, these images — be they Christian or Buddhist or what you will — are lovely, mysterious, richly intuitive.”

“One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.”

“The conscious side of woman corresponds to the emotional side of man, not to his "mind." Mind makes up the soul, or better, the "animus" of woman, and just as the anima of a man consists of inferior relatedness, full of affect, so the animus of woman consists of inferior judgments, or better, opinions.”

“Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?”