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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Carl Jung

Naked

Christian

Nothing

" 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. "

" Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. "

" 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. "

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

Carl Jung

Two

Reaction

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. "

" Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. "

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

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

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

Carl Jung

People

Important

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

Carl Jung

Wisdom

Understanding

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

" We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. "

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

Carl Jung

Own

Experience

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

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