Miscellaneous quotes
973 quotes from 439 people
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973News conference at the LBJ Ranch, Johnson City, Texas (28 November 1964)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 252I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1772)Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jongborn 1942How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Carl Jung1875–1961Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 49People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Carl Jung1875–1961Psychology and Alchemy (1952), CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung1875–1961In Du, May 1941The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung1875–1961Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung1875–1961Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 246Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung1875–1961Mysterium Coniunctionis, from The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (1966)
