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" 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. "

Carl Jung

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" 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. "

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

Carl Jung

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

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

" There is no coming to consciousness without pain. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. "

" If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. "