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Banality Quote by Carl Jung

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“My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.”

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No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

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Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

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The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

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Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him…

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To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

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Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

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Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given…

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Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

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Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

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Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

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“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living…

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People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

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