'All of my work,
everything that I have achieved with my mind and spirit,
evolved out of those initial dreams and fantasies.'
Quotes
Quotations are not only inspirational, and a source of wisdom, but can also be seen as a nice way to get a feeling about a certain thinker or visionary. How much does what they have to say touch you? How much does it correspond to what you seek? How does in inspire you? Here are the quotations by 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."
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
"Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other."
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
"We deem those happy who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
"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."
"The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."
"If there is anything that 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."
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
"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."
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
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