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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Carl Jung

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

" 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. "

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

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

Carl Jung

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" Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. "

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. "

Carl Jung

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" I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. "

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

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

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

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