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" 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. "

Carl Jung

Knowledge

Truth

Man

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Two

Reaction

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Wisdom

Understanding

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

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People

Important

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. "

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

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Without

Life

" 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. "

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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