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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Never underestimate the grace of bouncing back from a fallen heart."
"I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears."
"If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love."
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious."
"Move away from Machiavellian hearts. Manipulative people can frame you up even if you have a humble, simple and generous heart. Question their motive."
"To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is."
"Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor."
"Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty."
"Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge?Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration."
"Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts."
"Creative power is mightier than its possessor."
"Some prevailing signs of social climbers are their:- ticking cunning ambition- times of deceit- hand of wickedness- gloves of bigotry- hidden bunch of schemes- cup of pride- sip of prejudice- odour of greed- grit of hatredTheir favorite hunger is comparing themselves to others. A thirst of competition with sloth, jealousy and anger at their spirits."
"Happy endings happen every day we share our generosity, peace, compassion, kindness, respect, timeless love and joy with our love ones, friends and others."
"You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times."
"All that time is lost which might be better employed."
"At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863."
"The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure."
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. -Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England."
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
"Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse."
"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
"We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children."
"The mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection."
"It is under all circumstances an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, otherwise the repressed elements will only crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, not just at some unimportant point, but at the very spot where we are most sensitive. If people can be educated to see the shadow-side of their nature clearly, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more self-knowledge can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."
"There are people, of course, who think it unscientific to take anything seriously; they do not want their intellectual playground disturbed by graver considerations. But the doctor who fails to take account of man's feelings for values commits a serious blunder, and if he tries to correct the mysterious and well-nigh inscrutable workings of nature with his so-called scientific attitude, he is merely putting his shallow sophistry in place of nature's healing processes."
"Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations..."
"The golden moments of your life blend in fulfilment with the deepest joy and love you share with your love ones."
"When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim."
"In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society."
"Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul."
"How often do we listen and act to the call of honesty, serenity, humility and generosity?How many "soft pillows" do we use for a life time?If only everyone uses a "soft pillow," then what a better world it could be to have many genuine hearts."
"Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day."
"Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain."
"Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics."
"Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next."
"If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God."
"We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth."
"Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity."
"I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose projected image was myself; this suggested to me that I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi."
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
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