(25 quotes found)
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion”
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
“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.”
“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”