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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. "