If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself 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.
~ Carl Jung - [Self-knowledge]

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
~ Carl Jung - [Spirit and Spirituality]

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
~ Carl Jung - [Teachers and Teaching]

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
~ Carl Jung - [Torture]

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
~ Carl Jung - [Understanding]

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
~ Carl Jung - [Virtue]

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
~ Carl Jung - [Vision]

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
~ Carl Jung - [Passion]

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
~ Carl Jung - [Perspective]

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
~ Carl Jung - [Pride]

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
~ Carl Jung - [Promises]

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
~ Carl Jung - [Psychoanalysis]

Good. There are 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 - [Sadness]

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
~ Carl Jung - [Sanity]

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
~ Carl Jung - [Knowledge]

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Fnhrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
~ Carl Jung - [Leaders and Leadership]

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
~ Carl Jung - [Light]

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
~ Carl Jung - [Love]

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
~ Carl Jung - [Masses]

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
~ Carl Jung - [Mind]