Carl Jung Quotes About Individuality
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Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.
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Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.
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True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.
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It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .
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To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
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The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
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