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Pride
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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.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Problems
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I had always worked with the temperamental conviction that at bottom there are no insoluble problems, and experience justified me in so far as I have often seen patients simply outgrow a problem that had destroyed others. This 'outgrowing,' as I formerly called it, proved on further investigation to be a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient's horizon, and through this broadening of his outlook the insoluble problem lost its urgency.
-Carl Gustav Jung, Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower
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Promises
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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 Gustav Jung
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Psychiatry
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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 Gustav Jung
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Reality
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Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even
-Carl Gustav Jung, The Real and the Surreal, 1933
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Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Sadness
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Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Sanity
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Spirituality
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Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
-Carl Gustav Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, "Princeton University Press, 2nd ed., R.F.C. Hull trans.", 1968
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Success & Failure
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The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Talent
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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.
-Carl Gustav Jung, Psychological Reflections
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Teaching
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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 Gustav Jung
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We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant.
-Carl Gustav Jung, The Gifted Child - Collected Works, Vol 17
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Thought
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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 Gustav Jung
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Torture
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The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Understanding
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Virtue
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I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Youth
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Books by and about Carl Gustav Jung