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

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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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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