Carl Jung Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“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.”

“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”

“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.”

“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.”

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

“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.”

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”

“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”

“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 debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”