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

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" The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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