Carl Jung Quotations
Jealousy always means that we see someone else doing what we should have done but for our
incapacity or laziness; it is easier to criticize other people. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 99
He [Jung] added that he never has had good reviews; but, like Schopenhauer, ‘People read me,
and people will read me. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 101
The average is a statistical truth, and this is a concept; but it implies that there must be exceptions, and
there are exceptions to the general rule of space, time and causality. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 101
This man also asked C.G. if he believed in astrology because he had mentioned it; but, said
C.G., it is not necessary to ‘believe’ in such concepts – he simply observes that they are sometimes relevant. ~E.A. Bennet,
Meetings with Jung, Page 102
Later we talked again, and C.G. said how interesting it would be if someone were to study the dreams
people had under anaesthetics; he mentioned one or two examples. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 157
Also he [Jung] spoke of his great interest on reading that a neuro-surgeon, concerned with epilepsy, had stimulated the corpora
quadrigemina and the patient had had a vision of a mandala, a square containing a circle. This vision could be reproduced –
and was reproduced – by the stimulation. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 157
He said he had for a long time thought that the brain stem was important in our thinking life and how interested he was that
the corpora quadrigemina, the four bodies, was the area, for it confirmed his idea of the importance of the square and the
circle as symbols. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 157
In the evening after dinner, we somehow got onto the subject of numbers which, C.G. said, had a life of their own. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 158
C.G. spoke also of participation mystique – that everything is known. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 162
He [Jung] said that even at school he had always been suspected of being a fraud – as when the teacher refused to believe he had
written his essay; there was so much in it the teacher had never heard of that he concluded C.G. had got someone else
to write it for him. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 146
He [Jung] struggled with himself about telling her [Emma] but he did so; she was quite undisturbed, and in a way relieved for ever since her
operation she had been preparing for death. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 147
He [Jung] mentioned the witch doctor at Bollingen, whose house on the hill we had seen from the boat yesterday. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 134
The witch doctor has a very ancient book which was given to him by a monk of Einsiedeln who liked him
when he was a boy. It is a reprint of an older volume, and contains the so-called sixth and seventh books of Moses. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page134
With it, in the same chamois leather bag, he [Jung] had a little jade Chinese wishing wheel (it looked eighteenth century and was
celadon jade with a movable centre). ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 136
Then some left, and C.G. went out and returned with a selection of gramophone records; they were all of
Negro spirituals. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 139
The painting of this ceiling was C.G.’s idea; his coat of arms, or the separate parts of it, fill a long panel at one end
and at the other end is that of Mrs. Jung. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 182
We looked at some of the many stone carvings he [Jung] has done; a small one was of a snake which had
swallowed a perch and died. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 183
A beautiful stone in the classical style was a memorial to Mrs. Jung; this, he [Jung] said, was to be put up on the wall by
the loggia. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 183
But the detective stories were a rest, chiefly because they had no bearing on his professional work; and he [Jung] could sleep
after reading them because they were not true. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 187
I asked of his first impressions of the anima and he [Jung] said it came in his dream of the white dove when the little
girl stood beside him; she was like his eldest daughter. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 189
The extraverted person cannot value anything from the inside, hence the superficiality of much academic
psychology – psychological tests for example, or the physical explanations of mental experiences. ~Carl Jung,
Meetings with Jung, Page 194
There is no understanding of the fact that the mind itself has its causality; something from the inner life exerts its influence –
ideas just arrive in the mind, or symptoms appear. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 195
Then when C.G. was in India, he was invited to Mysore State where this man was the guru to the ruler; he was treated very
well, stayed in the ruler’s guest-house, and was taken for drives in an ancient but comfortable motor car. ~E.A. Bennet,
Meetings with Jung, Page 199
He [Jung] mentioned also the archetypes as the representation of the instincts, that is, the instincts can be expressed in many
ways – there are hundreds of possibilities. But one form is selected because it corresponds to the instinct – it is an image
of it. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 200.
But the delusion itself is something; one cannot deny its reality because it is unusual. ~Carl Jung,
Meetings with Jung, Page 201
It is important to be alone and unhurried sometimes, for then we are close to Nature (as he was on the night of this dream); then we can hear the voice of Nature speaking to us. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with Jung, Page 203
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