If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.


Gustav Mahler

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Fortissimo at last!
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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any rea...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Error is just as important a condition of life as truth
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it i...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which open...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for my...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity w...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks b...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross se...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling ha...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.
J. GUSTAV WHITE
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our for...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who loo...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG