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Carl Jung Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“We solve those riddles from which we suffer, but not those which please us.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Ethics, Life Ethics, Riddles, Suffering
“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Alone, Love, Solitude
“We create the meaning of events. The meaning is and always was artificial. We make it.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Active Nihilism, Creation, Grounding The Void, Meaning
“The spirit of the depths taught me to say: 'I am the servant of a child.' Through this dictum I learn above all the most extreme humility, as what I most need.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Child God, Humility
“The soul demands your folly, not your wisdom.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Errors = Portals Of Discovery, Soul, Wisdom, Wrong Is Right
“Do you call light what we men call the worst darkness?”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Darkness, God, Gossip, Light, Theology
“The God is where you are not.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Deferral, God, Theology, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Your Hell is made up of all the things that you always ejected from your sanctuary with a curse and a kick of the foot. When you step into your own Hell, never think that you come like one suffering in beauty, or as a proud pariah, but you come like a stupid and curious fool and gaze in wonder at the scraps that have fallen from your table.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Hell, Unknown Repercussions
“Believe me: It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth, and the life.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Learning, Path, Relativity, Teaching, Truth
“For the sake of my human weakness, the spirit of the depths gave me this word. Yet this word is also superfluous, since I do not speak it freely, but because I must. I speak because the spirit robs me of joy and life if I do not speak. I am the serf who brings it and does not know what he carries in his hand. It would burn his hands if he did not place it where his master orders him to lay it. ”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book
Tagged: Language Serf, Muse
“'No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction, sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come. Have you not had monasteries? Have not countless thousands gone into the desert? You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back, and if you were fettered to the world of this time with iron, the call of the desert would break all chains. Truly, I prepare you for solitude.'”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Chains, Desert, Sacrifice, Solitude
“You will recall your femininity. It may seem to you then as if you were unmanly, stupid, and feminine so to speak. But you must accept the ridiculous, otherwise you will suffer distress, and there will come a time, when you are least observant, when it will suddenly round on you and make you ridiculous. Yes, it seems as if you have lost all virtue, as if you have fallen into debasement. It seems the same way to the woman who accepts her masculinity. Yes, it seems to you like enslavement. You are a slave of what you need in your soul. The most masculine man needs women, and he is consequently their slave. Become a woman yourself, and you will be saved from slavery to woman. You are abandoned without mercy to woman so long as you cannot fend off mockery with all your masculinity. It is good for you once to put on women's clothes: people will laugh at you, but through becoming a woman you attain freedom from women and their tyranny.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Crossdressing, Gender Relations, Gender Slavery, Masculinity
“So God has never been made. He has always been. Then slowly, with the increase of consciousness, when people discovered that they could make different ideas about the deity, they came to the conclusion that it was nothing but an idea, and they quite forgot the real phenomenon that is behind all the ideas. You see, they became so identical with the products of their own consciousness that they thought they had created him. But such abuse brings about its own revenge. The more people created ideas about God, the more they depleted and devitalized nature. And then it looked as if that primordial fact of the world had only taken place in imagination. Of course, be that process we created consciousness, but we have built up a thick wall between ourselves and primordial facts, between ourselves and the divine presence. We are so far away that nobody knows what one is talking about when one speaks of that divine presence, and if anybody discovers it suddenly, he thinks it is most amazing; yet it is the most simple fact. But we are no longer simple enough on account of that thick wall of ideas; we have so many preconceived ideas about what the divine presence ought to be, that we have deprived ourselves of the faculty of seeing it. Yet the primordial facts are still in the world; they happen all the time, only we have given them so many names that we don't see the wood any longer on account of the trees”
— Carl Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939
Tagged: Consciousness, Theology
“The spirit of this time considers itself extremely clever, like every such spirit of the time. But wisdom is simpleminded, not just simple. Because of this, the clever person mocks wisdom, since mockery is his weapon. He uses the pointed, poisonous weapon, because he is struck by naive wisdom. If he were not struck, he would not need the weapon. Only in the desert do we become aware of our terrible simplemindedness, but we are afraid of admitting it. That is why we are scornful. But mockery does not attain simplemindedness. The mockery falls on the mocker, and in the desert where no one hears and answers, he suffocates from his own scorn.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Desert, Ego, Mockery, Negativity, Scorn
“You thought you knew that abyss? It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and devilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your own heinous and devilish hand that inflicts the suffering on you, but not your brother, who wrestles with his own devils.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Abyss, Connectionism, Evil, Horror, One Body, Relationalism, Suffering, Terror
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