It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.
Carl JungThe 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 Fรผhrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
Carl JungI believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
Carl JungOne is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
Carl JungThe gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.
Carl Jung