"It is in applied psychology, if anywhere,..." - Quote by Carl Jung
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.
More by Carl Jung
“All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”
“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”
More on Psychology
“Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.”
“Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us”
“We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.”
More on Human Nature
“There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.”
“Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.”
“Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.”