The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. - Carl Jung
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times. - Carl Jung
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. - Carl Jung
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
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