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- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
- The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "Modern Man in Search of a Soul"
- We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909
- Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- 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 it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.
- Carl G. Jung, in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes' "Analysis der Kinderseele" (The Inner World of Childhood), 1931
- The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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