Jung - Words of Wisdom!

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed"

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other"

More from Jung`s Life

Emma & Gustav Jung
the Psychoanalitic Congress 1911

In 1903, Jung married Emma Rauschenbach, who came from a wealthy family in Switzerland. They had five children: Agathe, Gret, Franz, Marianne, and Helene. Their marriage lasted until Emma's death in 1955,

Our main task, Jung believed, is to discover and fulfill our deep innate potential, much as the acorn contains the potential to become the oak, or the caterpillar to become the butterfly.

• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. 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.

• We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as 'fate'.

Jung - Words of Wisdom II

• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

• Meaning makes a great many things endurable.

• 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.

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

• Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

• The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

• 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.

• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism

•  In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.