Sayings About Life by Carl Gustav Jung
Sayings about life
Sayings about life by Carl Gustav Jung
1. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
2. The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
3. Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
4. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose meaning if it were not balanced by
sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
5. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
6. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
7. Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
8. 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.
9. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life âEUR" that is to say, over 35 âEUR" there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
10. If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
11. If there is anything that 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.
12. In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
13. In my case PilgrimâEUR(TM)s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the
little clod of earth that I am.
14. It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
15. It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in
our own hearts.
16. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
17. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
18. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
19. ManâEUR(TM)s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
20. 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.
21. Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
22. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. 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.
23. Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
24. 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.
25. The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
26. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
27. The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
28. The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration that are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
29. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
30. There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
31. Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
32. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
33. We deem those happy who from the experience of life have
learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
34. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Source:
Severyn T. Bruyn
Sayings about life by Carl Gustav Jung
1. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
2. The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
3. Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
4. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose meaning if it were not balanced by
sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
5. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
6. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
7. Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
8. 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.
9. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life âEUR" that is to say, over 35 âEUR" there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
10. If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
11. If there is anything that 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.
12. In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
13. In my case PilgrimâEUR(TM)s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the
little clod of earth that I am.
14. It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
15. It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in
our own hearts.
16. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
17. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
18. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
19. ManâEUR(TM)s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
20. 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.
21. Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
22. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. 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.
23. Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
24. 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.
25. The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
26. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
27. The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
28. The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration that are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
29. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
30. There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
31. Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
32. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
33. We deem those happy who from the experience of life have
learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
34. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Source:
Severyn T. Bruyn
