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Human nature4 quotes
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung · 1933People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung · 1944Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. — Carl Jung · 1916Art3 quotes
In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto GiacomettiArt does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. — Paul Klee · 1920Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.. .Color and I are one. I am a painter. — Paul Klee · 1959God2 quotes
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. — Carl Jung · 1952God and man2 quotes
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. — Carl Jung · 1952Love2 quotes
When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again-surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image. — Max Frisch · 1954Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — Carl Jung · 1912Reason2 quotes
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. — Carl Jung · 1921The 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. — Carl Jung · 1933Reason and emotion2 quotes
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. — Carl Jung · 1921The 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. — Carl Jung · 1933The human condition2 quotes
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. — Carl Jung · 1962Yin and yang2 quotes
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — Carl Jung · 1912There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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. — Carl Jung · 1960Accumulation of wealth1 quote
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1755Addiction1 quote
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, or morphine or idealism. — Carl Jung · 1962Adversity1 quote
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. — Carl Jung · 1916Alienation1 quote
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also-He above all-is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended. — Henri-Frederic Amiel · 1849Architecture1 quote
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier · 1923Business management1 quote
The customer is never wrong. — Cesar Ritz · 1908Cats1 quote
In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto GiacomettiCensorship1 quote
Censorship is crucial for preserving morals but useless for restoring them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762Change starts at home1 quote
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. — Carl Jung · 1939Civil society1 quote
The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1755Civilization1 quote
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung · 1933Color1 quote
Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.. .Color and I are one. I am a painter. — Paul Klee · 1959Connecting with others1 quote
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung · 1933Conscience1 quote
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. — Karl Barth · 1957Creativity1 quote
Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows. — Alain de Botton · 2010Credulity1 quote
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1781Customers1 quote
The customer is never wrong. — Cesar Ritz · 1908Decisions and choices1 quote
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. — Carl Jung · 1933Decline of religion1 quote
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958Democracy1 quote
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762Distraction1 quote
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung · 1944