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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. "

" A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. "

" Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. "

" 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. "

" 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 particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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