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

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

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

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

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

" One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

" The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. "

" 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. "

" There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. "

" There is no coming to consciousness without pain. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" 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. "