Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
It is your mind that creates this world.
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be…
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Wit is educated insolence.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The biggest risk is not taking one.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative…
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation…
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark…
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.
Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.
It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.
Genius is personality with two measures of talent.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when…
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are…
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow…
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don?t write about Man, write about 'a' man.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
It ain't over till it's over.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae…
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
When you get right down to it, the Safety Lecture is a silly idea. I mean, if the passengers really thought the plane was going to crash, they wouldn't get…
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only…