Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Quotes

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

• 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.

• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

• Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

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

• Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

• The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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

• 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.

• There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.