Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Carl jung
Date: April 6, 2008
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
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.
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
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.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.