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" A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. "

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" A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. "

" The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. "

" We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. "

" The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. "

" Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. "

" Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. "

" One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. "

" Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. "

" Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. "

" Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. "

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

" The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. "

" Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. "

" A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. "

" A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. "

" The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. "

" The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. "

" Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration? "

" We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. "

" It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. "

" All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. "

" Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. "

" We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. "

" Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. "

" As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. "

" The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. "

" The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. "

" Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "

" In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. "

" In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. "