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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. "

" There is no birth of consciousness without pain. "

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

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

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "