Carl Jung

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ”

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. ”

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it. ”

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. ”

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. ”

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ”