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Thoughtful Quotes by Carl Jung
- The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
- We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
- 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.
- It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
- 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…
- Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
- The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
- Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
- Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
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