Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 26, 1875 Death: June 6, 1961
Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot..
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, an….
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full traged….
What you resist persist..
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence..
I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is n….
Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless c….
Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the c….
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are ….
Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil..
Colors express the main psychic functions of man..
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For wh….
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the….
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fort….
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life..
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life..
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance..
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping..
As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must wa….
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much nec….