Psychiatrist Quotes

“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.”

“The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.”

“Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.”

“Modern man is sick because he is not whole.”

“Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.”

“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”

“The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.”

“We discover ourselves through others.”

“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”

“Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.”

“The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.”

“Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?”

“We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.”

“Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.”

“A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.”

“Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.”

“We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.”

“Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.”

“Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide”

“Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth”

“A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.”

“Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.”

“Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.”

“There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.”

“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.”