Fortune Quote #2922

"God" is a primordial experience of man, and from the remotest times
humanity has taken inconceivable pains either to portray this baffling
experience, to assimilate it by means of interpretation, speculation, and
dogma, or else to deny it. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2921

The one and only immediate guarantor of reality is the observer.
Significantly enough, the most unpsychological of all sciences, physics,
comes up against the observer at the decisive point. This knowledge sets
its stamp on our century. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2920

It is not the daring fantasy of the anatomist that can be held responsible
when he discovers the nearest analogies to the human skeleton in certain
African anthropoids of which the layman has never heard. -- Carl
Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2919

Instead of ninety-nine, you can also say a hundred minus one, if you don't
find it too complicated. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2918

Ignorance and narrow-mindedness, even when the latter is political, have
never been conclusive scientific arguments. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2917

A petition is nothing more than a list of people who refused to say no
when it was required of them. -- Jonah Goldberg

Fortune Quote #2916

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother. --
Charles Schultz

Fortune Quote #2915

Humor, as with war, is something you shouldn't try to do unless you're
sure you can win. Failure is worse than not trying at all. --
Jonah Goldberg

Fortune Quote #2914

It is dangerous if these matters are only objects of belief; for where
there is belief there is doubt, and the fiercer and naiver the belief the
more devastating the doubt once it begins to dawn. -- Carl Gustav
Jung

Fortune Quote #2913

Man, if thou knowest what thou doest, thou art blessed, but if thou
knowest not, thou art accursed, and a transgressor of the law. --
The Apocryphal New Testament

Fortune Quote #2912

Although good and evil are unshakable as moral values, they still need to
be subjected to a bit of psychological revision. Much, that is to say,
that proves to be abysmally evil in its ultimate effects does not come from
man's wickedness but from his stupidity and unconsciousness. --
Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2911

An object that has no will of its own, capable, if need be, of opposing
its creator, and with no qualities other than its creator's, such an object
has no independent existence and is incapable of ethical decision....
Therefore Lucifer was perhaps the one who best understood the divine will
struggling to create a world and who carried out that will most
faithfully. For, by rebelling against God, he became the active principle
of a creation which opposed to God a counter-will of its own. --
Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2910

A symbol cannot be made to order as the rationalist would like to
believe. It is a legitimate symbol only if it gives expression to the
immutable structure of the unconscious and can therefore command general
acceptance. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2909

How can one speak of "good" at all if there is no "evil"? Or of "light"
if there is no "darkness," or of "above" if there is no "below"? There is
no getting round the fact that if you allow substantiality to good, you
must also allow it to evil. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2908

Gods are personifications of unconscious contents, for they reveal
themselves to us through the unconscious activity of the psyche. --
Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2907

Manifestations of a psychic activity not caused or consciously willed by
man himself have always been felt to be daemonic, divine, or "holy," in the
sense that they heal and make whole. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2906

The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is
self-realization, or individuation. But since man knows himself only as an
ego, and the self, as a totality, is indescribable and indistinguishable
from a God-image, self-realization... amounts to God's incarnation.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2905

But as one can never distinguish empirically between a symbol of the self
and a God-image, the two ideas, however much we try to differentiate them,
always appear blended together, so that the self appears synonymous with
the inner Christ... and Christ with God... just as the atman appears as the
individualized self and at the same time as the animating principle of the
cosmos, and Tao as a condition of mind and at the same time as the correct
behaviour of cosmic events. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2904

Belief has already conquered the summit which thinking tries to win by
toilsome climbing.... Therefore let the believer rejoice that others, too,
seek to climb the mountain on whose peak he sits. -- Carl Gustav
Jung

Fortune Quote #2903

People who merely believe and don't think always forget that they
continually expose themselves to their own worst enemy: doubt. Wherever
belief reigns, doubt lurks in the background. But thinking people welcome
doubt: it serves them as a valuable stepping-stone to better
knowledge. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2902

But what is the difference between a real illusion and a healing religious
experience? It is merely a difference of words. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2901

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who
has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source
of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendour to the
world and to mankind. He has _pistis_ and peace. Where is the criterion by
which you could say that such a life is not legitimate, that such an
experience is not valid, and that such _pistis_ is mere illusion?
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2900

I am not, however, addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith, but
to those many people for hwom the light has gone out, the mystery has
faded, and God is dead. For most of them there is no going back, and one
does not know either whether going back is always the better way.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2899

In the gospels themselves factual reports, legends, and myths are woven
into a whole. This is precisely what constitutes the meaning of the
gospels, and they would immediately lose their character of wholeness if
one tried to separate the individual from the archetypal with a critical
scalpel. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2898

Not only is "freedom of the will" an incalculable problem philosophically,
it is also a misnomer in the practical sense, for we seldom find anybody
who is not influenced and indeed dominated by desires, habits, impulses,
prejudices, resentments, and by every conceivable kind of complex.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2897

How can anyone see straight when he does not even see himself and the
darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
-- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2896

The philosophy of the Upanishads corresponds to a psychology that long ago
recognized the relativity of the gods. This is not to be confused with a
stupid error like atheism. The world is as it ever has been, but our
consciousness undergoes peculiar changes. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2895

The _genius religiosus_ is a wind that bloweth where it listeth. There is
no Archimedean point from which to judge, since the psyche is
indistinguishable from its manifestations. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2894

In lunatic asylums it is a well-known fact that patients are far more
dangerous when suffering from fear than when moved by rage or
hatred. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2893

What is ordinarily called "religion" is a substitute to such an amazing
degree that I ask myself seriously whether this kind of "religion," which I
prefer to call a creed, may not after all have an important function in
human society. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2892

One might, perhaps, consider this case an exception inasmuch as fairly
complete human beings are exceptions. -- Carl Gustav Jung