"No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text."
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"A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life."
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"There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be useful. Man positively needs general ideas & convictions that will give a meaning to his life & enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. He can stand the most incredible hardships when he is convinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his misfortunes, he has to admit that he is taking part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’"
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"Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth"
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"Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself."
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"Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate."
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"The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development."
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"To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse."
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"Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning."
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"Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance."
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"The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches."
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"It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality."
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"The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity."
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"What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived"
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"I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further."
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"The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual."
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"The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly."
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"Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times."
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"If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them."
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"The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa."
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