“I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.”
Quote by Carl Jung
Author
Carl Jung
Carl Jung, born on July 26, 1875, and died on June 6, 1961, was a renowned Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist. His theories have had a profound impact on fields such as psychology, psychiatry, and religious studies. Jung proposed the theory of personality types, the concept of the collective unconscious, and founded analytical psychology. more
You May Also Like
“Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.”
Source: The Rambler
“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”
“By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.”
Source: The Courage of Turtles