1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Jung – [Adventure]
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Jung – [Masses]
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung – [Mistakes]
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung – [Mind]
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung – [Influence]
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
Carl Jung – [Spirit and Spirituality]
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. 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 Jung – [Teachers and Teaching]
Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!
Carl Jung – [Ideology]
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
Carl Jung – [Psychoanalysis]
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Jung – [Individuality]
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung – [Sanity]
Sometimes, 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 Jung – [Genius]
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Carl Jung – [Achievement]
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung – [Missionaries]
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
Carl Jung – [Cinema]
The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung – [Torture]
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
Carl Jung – [Committees and Meetings]
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
Carl Jung – [Consciousness]
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Jung – [Promises]
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung – [Cooperation]
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