"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
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"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going."
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"The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises."
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"The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man."
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"The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body."
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"But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself."
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"Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking."
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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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"The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent."
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"We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives."
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"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough."
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"A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self."
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"Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot."
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"We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."
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"When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious."
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"The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men."
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"When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer."
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"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood."
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"The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then."
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"Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal."
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