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.