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• Everyone is in love with his own ideas.

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• It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

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• 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.

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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

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• Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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• The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

   

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• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

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

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• The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

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• We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

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• The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man.

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• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

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• 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.

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• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

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• Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

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• I began to blame the philosophers for rattling away when experience was lacking, and holding their tongues when they ought to have been answering with facts. In this respect they all seemed like watered-down theologians.

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• The child who became the world-renowned psychologist C.G. Jung was christened Karl Gustav II Jung.

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• You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him
  others in return.

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Carl Gustav Jung (134)

Birth:	26th July, 1875
Death:	6th June, 1961
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Psychotherapist

About

Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland. He was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death. Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity.

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