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- As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with…
- Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of…
- Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural…
- It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate…
- In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... It is a moment…
- Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And…
- The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree…
- The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the…
- The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious…
- It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western…
- The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating…
- We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous…
- I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a…
- Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature…
- We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and…
- 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…
- 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.
- Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
- Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and…
- Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect…
- That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing…
- A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose…
- If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental…
- We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong