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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. "

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

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

" The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "

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

" Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge. "

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

" Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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