Carl Gustav Jung quotes and words of wisdom

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
Found in the topic Insanity.

"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is something that could better be changed in ourselves."
Found in the topic Change.

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
Found in the topic Dream.

"I could not say that I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God."
Found in the topic Religion.

"Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
Found in the topic Teach.

"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...."
Found in the topic Crutch.

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
Found in the topic Heart.

"A person who has not passed through the inferno of their passions has never overcome them."
Found in the topic Passion.

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves."
Found in the topic Attitude.

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
Found in the topic Housework.

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
Found in the topic Hand.

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
Found in the topic Acceptance.

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
Found in the topic All.

"The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid."
Found in the topic Youth.

"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."
Found in the topic Talent.

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Found in the topic Personality.

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Found in the topic Idea.

"The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
Found in the topic Mind.

"Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health."
Found in the topic Diet.

Interesting Quotes

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.Stephen Hawking - English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )

All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)