Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Gustav Jung More Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung More Quotes From Carl Gustav Jung An understanding heart is everything is 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. Carl Gustav Jung Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Gustav Jung Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.' Carl Gustav Jung Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Gustav Jung Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. Carl Gustav Jung As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Carl Gustav Jung If there is anything 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. Carl Gustav Jung Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Gustav Jung Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble. Carl Gustav Jung The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Gustav Jung The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Gustav Jung Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Gustav Jung The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Gustav Jung There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Gustav Jung Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health. Carl Gustav Jung 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. Carl Gustav Jung
