Zitat des Tages von Carl Jung:
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
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.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
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.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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.
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.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
