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" 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. "
Carl Jung
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "
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" The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. "
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" Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "
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" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "
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" Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "
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" Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There is no coming to consciousness without pain. "
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" A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. "
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" Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. "
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" Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. "
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" I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. "
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" 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. "
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" The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. "
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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. "
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" All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. "
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" 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. "
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" Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. "
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" In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. "
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" Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "
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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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" 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. "
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