Carl Jung on “Doubt” – Anthology
Doubt and insecurity are indispensable components of a complete life. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 163-174
D0ubt is the crown of life because truth and error come together. D0ubt is living, truth is sometimes death and stagnation. ~Carl Jung, Dream Analysis, Page 89.
When you are in d0ubt you have the greatest opportunity to unite the dark and light sides of life. ~Carl Jung, Dream Analysis, Page 89.
He who cannot bear d0ubt does not bear himself. Such a one is doubtful; he does not grow and hence he does not live. D0ubt is the sign of the strongest and the weakest. The strong have d0ubt, but d0ubt has the weak. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 301.
I do not doubt: I also want evil for the sake of my God. I enter the unequal battle, since it is always unequal and without d0ubt a lost cause. How terrible and despairing would this battle be otherwise? But precisely this is how it should and will be. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 289.
But fanaticism is always a compensation for hidden d0ubt. Religious persecutions occur only where heresy is a menace. ~Carl Jung, Analytical Psychology and Education, Page 81.
Fanaticism is due to an unconscious doubt threatening the conscious attitude. For example, dogmatism is merely to protect a creed against an unrecognized d0ubt. True conviction needs nothing of the sort. Fanaticism is due to a threatened conviction. ~Carl Jung, Cornwall Seminar, Page 18.
D0ubt is creative if it is answered by deeds, and so is neurosis if it exonerates itself as having been a phase—a crisis which is pathological only when chronic. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 332-334
Neurosis is a justified d0ubt in oneself and continually poses the ultimate question of trust in man and in God. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 332-334
I for my part prefer the precious gift of d0ubt, for the reason that it does not violate the virginity of things beyond our ken. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 8.
I am just as much in d0ubt about myself as before, the more so the more I try to say something definite. It is as though familiarity with oneself alienated one from oneself still further. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 162-163.
