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" It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. "

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" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. "

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

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