People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

More from Carl Gustav Jung

• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
• The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
• Accept loss forever
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844