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" For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself. "

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" 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. "

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" When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. "

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

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

" Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. "

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

" 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. "

" If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. "

" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

" 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? "

" The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. "

" We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. "

" In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness. "

" Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. "

" There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. "

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

" We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. "

" Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "

" The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. "

" 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. "

" 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. "