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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no coming to consciousness without pain. "

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

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

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

" Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. "

" It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. "

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

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" The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. "

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

" 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. "