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Quotations of selected author

Carl Gustav Jung

1875-1961. Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist.

1. "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."

categories: Love -:- Power and Weakness

2. "We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself."

categories: Human

3. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

categories: Various

4. "The 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."

source: "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man"

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Reality and Imagination

5. "Superstition and accident manifest the will of God."

categories: God and Religion

6. "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul."

categories: Sin and Conscience -:- Various

7. "Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Human

8. "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

9. "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."

categories: Family and Loneliness

10. "If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

11. "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."

categories: Human -:- Talent and Genius

12. "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

categories: Human -:- Various

13. "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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

categories: Happiness -:- Joy and Sadness

14. "Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him."

categories: Art and Culture

15. "All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy."

categories: Reality and Imagination -:- Talent and Genius


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