Author of quotes: Carl Gustav Jung. Page 3

If you are a gifted man, it doesn't mean that you got something. This means that you have something to give.

... Then I had a passion for plants, animals, stones. I was always ready for something mysterious. Now I realize that was religious in the Christian sense, although I thought to myself: "Yes, all this is true, but there is something Else - a secret, something nobody knows..."

My mother was a very good mother, she was giving the earth warmth... but sometimes it appeared a mighty and a terrible way with huge power over me. Day gentle, at night she appeared to me a terrible all - seeing creature- half animal, a priestess of the bear cave, ruthless as truth and nature as...

There is no more hypocritical whore than the intellect when it replaces the heart.

A large society composed solely of beautiful people on morality and intelligence is still big, dumb and savage animal. Indeed, the larger the organization, the more inevitable their immorality and hopeless stupidity.

Not brilliant and not insane will never be able enough to extricate himself from the involvement in the reality of the world to be able to see the world as your image.

But not the criticism of individual contemporaries, and future judge of the truth and misconceptions of new discovery. There are things today that are not yet true and may not be true, but I think tomorrow will be such.

Work in this area is the work of the pioneer. I'm often wrong and not once had to re-learn, but I know - and therefore reconciled with the fact that as of the night there is a day and truth is born out of delusion.

The improper functioning of the psyche can cause the body significant damage, and conversely, physical illness may also cause damage and the soul, since soul and body are not separate, but rather one and the same life. So rare bodily disease, which would not involve emotional complications, even if it is not caused by mentally.

What youth found and had to find outside people period afternoon must find within himself.

Unfortunately, too many people always speak only of what man should be, but never what he really is.

Vulnerability is a symptom of a current disability.

With a very careful study revealed that married mostly people belonging to different types, and moreover, as it turned out, quite unconsciously - for mutual complementation. <...> So marriage between members of these two different types can be ideal. Adapting to external needs of life they are perfectly suited to each other. But if, for example, active half earned already enough money or fate sent them a large inheritance and the difficulties of life disappear, then they have time to do with each other. Before that they seemed to be standing back to back and defended himself from want, and now turn to each other in the face and wanting to reach an understanding, make a discovery that never understood each other. They speak different languages. So there is a conflict of two types. This argument, even if you are very quiet and most intimate way, sarcastic, associated with violence and mutual valuation. Because the value of one is the negative value of the other.

But still - you'd be surprised what use is a neurosis? What can be achieved with it? One who is surrounded by his loved ones had pronounced bouts of neurosis, knows - why not just "reach" with it! There is no better means than the neurosis, in order to tyrannize the whole house. Heart attacks, choking fits, convulsions of all kinds of neurotic nature have an enormous impact others with unmatched efficiency. Streams of compassion, pouring out on the sufferer, noble horror loving anxious parents, running back and frightened servants, a flurry of phone calls, called for help doctors set of difficult diagnoses, a thorough examination, lengthy treatment, considerable costs - and in the center of all this turmoil lies himself innocent suffering to which the surrounding still filled with gratitude that he found the strength to move their "seizures".