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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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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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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
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The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Grat 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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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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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.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other.
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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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 are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without 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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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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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 is out of tune.
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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 a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
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We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
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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.
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So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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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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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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