Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 26, 1875 Death: June 6, 1961
I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God..
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble..
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases..
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways..
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem..
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you..
Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next..
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own..
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely..
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid ….
Simple things are always the most difficult..
I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pat….
Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most s….
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 fello….
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness..
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life..
Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be t….
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary.
Man cannot stand a meaningless life..
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace. The scop….
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration..