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"We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment."
"But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts."
"Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life."
"Words are animals, alive with a will of their own"
"Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them."
"The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals."
"To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."
"Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality."
"Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built."
"What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future."
"I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference."
"The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone."
"The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine"
"Creative power is mightier than its possessor."
"We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself."
"Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche"
"Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation."
"Magic is the science of the jungle."
"So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate."
"Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete."