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" 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. "

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

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" There is no birth of consciousness without pain. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "