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

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" Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. "

" Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. "

" 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. "

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

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There is no birth of consciousness without pain. "

" A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. "

" Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. "

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

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

" We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. "

" 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. "

" Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. "

" 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. "