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.“

“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.”