Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl JungAs far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
Carl JungThe dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
Carl JungThe pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl JungWhere love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl JungKnowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl JungThe 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 JungTo me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl JungEvery form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Carl JungIt all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
Carl JungThe word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl JungNothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl JungThe teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
Carl JungWe cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl JungThe healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl JungThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl JungEvery form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl JungIn studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
Carl JungCreative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
Carl JungAn understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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 JungThere can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl JungSometimes, 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 JungNobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl JungI 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 JungThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung
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