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

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" We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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" The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. "

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

" 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. "

" Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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