"Man and His Symbols" Quotes
A comprehensive exploration of the significance and interpretation of symbols in human life, drawing on Jungian psychology.
psychology | 415 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us.
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.
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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.
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.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
