"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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"All fanaticism is repressed doubt."
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"Man cannot stand a meaningless life."
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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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"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."
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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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"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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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
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"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
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"The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire."
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"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
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"To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is."
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"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites."
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"I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed."
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"The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine.""
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"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
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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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"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul."
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"Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination."
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"Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust."
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