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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There is no birth of consciousness without pain. "

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

" A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. "

" 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. "

" There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. "

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

" As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. "

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

" 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. "

" The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. "

" The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it. "

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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