“I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.”

Carl Jung
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“The conflict between science and religion is in reality a misunderstanding of both. Scientific materialism has merely introduced a new hypostasis, and that is an intellectual sin. It has given another name to the supreme principle of reality and has assumed that this created a new thing and destroyed an old thing. Whether you call the principle of existence “God,” “matter,” “energy,” or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. The materialist is a metaphysician malgré lui. Faith, on the other hand, tries to retain a primitive mental condition on merely sentimental grounds. It is unwilling to give up the primitive, childlike relationship to mind-created and hypostatized figures; it wants to go on enjoying the security and confidence of a world still presided over by powerful, responsible, and kindly parents.”

Carl Jung
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“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”

Carl Jung
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“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

Carl Jung
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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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.”

Carl Jung
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“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”

Carl Jung
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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.”

Carl Jung
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“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”

Carl Jung
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“The conflict between science and religion is in reality a misunderstanding of both. Scientific materialism has merely introduced anew hypostasis, and that is an intellectual sin. It has given another name to the supreme principle of reality and has assumed that this created a new thing and destroyed an old thing. Whether you call the principle of existence “God,” “matter,” “energy,” or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. The materialist is a metaphysician malgré lui. Faith, on the other hand, tries to retain a primitive mental condition on merely sentimental grounds. It is unwilling to give up the primitive, childlike relationship to mind-created and hypostatized figures; it wants to go on enjoying the security and confidence of a world still presided over by powerful, responsible, and kindly parents.”

Carl Jung
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“For a younger person it is almost a sin–and certainly a danger–to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person itis a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself. After having lavished its light upon the world, the sun withdraws its rays in order to illumine itself.”

Carl Jung
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“The plant is not a mere product of the soil, but a living process centred in itself, the essence of which has nothing to do with the character of the soil. In the same way the art-work must be regarded as a creative formation, freely making use of every precondition. Its meaning and its own individual particularity rests in itself, and not in its preconditions. In fact one might also describe it as a being that uses man and his personal dispositions merely as a cultural medium or soil, disposing his powers according to his own laws, while shaping itself to the fulfillment of its own creative purpose.”

Carl Jung
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“A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.”

Carl Jung
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“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”

Carl Jung
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“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

Carl Jung
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“The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.”

Carl Jung
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“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

Carl Jung
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“The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”

Carl Jung
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“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

Carl Jung
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“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

Carl Jung
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“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

Carl Jung
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General