"Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it."
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. Carl Gustav Jung
A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music. Carl Gustav Jung
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. Carl Gustav Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Gustav Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Gustav Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Gustav Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Gustav Jung
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. Carl Gustav Jung
Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Gustav Jung
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. Carl Gustav Jung
How indeed? He copes, like everybody else, as well as he can, that's all. And it's usually deplorably enough. Carl Gustav Jung
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice. Carl Gustav Jung
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. Carl Gustav Jung
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Carl Gustav Jung
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Gustav Jung
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Gustav Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Carl Gustav Jung
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. Carl Gustav Jung
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. Carl Gustav Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Gustav Jung
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Gustav Jung
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Gustav Jung
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Carl Gustav Jung
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. Carl Gustav Jung
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. Carl Gustav Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Carl Gustav Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Gustav Jung
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Gustav Jung
Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist! Carl Gustav Jung
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. Carl Gustav Jung
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. Carl Gustav Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Gustav Jung
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. Carl Gustav Jung
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. Carl Gustav Jung
The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands. Carl Gustav Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Gustav Jung
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Gustav Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. Carl Gustav Jung
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Gustav Jung
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life. Carl Gustav Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Gustav Jung
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. Carl Gustav Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Gustav Jung
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. Carl Gustav Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Gustav Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Gustav Jung
The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it. Carl Gustav Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Gustav Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Gustav Jung
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. Carl Gustav Jung
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. Carl Gustav Jung
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. Carl Gustav Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Gustav Jung
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. Carl Gustav Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Gustav Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. Carl Gustav Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Gustav Jung
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Gustav Jung
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Carl Gustav Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart . Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Gustav Jung
Type: Psychologist Date of Birth:
1875-07-26 Year of Death:
1961 Nationality:
Swiss
