Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Quote by Carl Jung

Topics: Self Concept Quotes

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is...

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is...

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years...

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years...

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders...

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders...

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as...

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as...

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

A scream is always just that - a noise and not music.

A scream is always just that - a noise and not music.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that...

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that...

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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

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

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

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

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

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual...

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual...

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power...

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power...

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life...

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life...

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first...

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first...

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.