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" We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

" In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. "

" 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. "

" There is no coming to consciousness without pain. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. "

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

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

" There is no birth of consciousness without pain. "

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

" It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. "

" 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. "

" Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. "