"It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail"
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"Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves."
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"From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex."
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"I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter."
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"Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present in the moment."
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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself."
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"The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else."
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"How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist's mind?... I think that these behavioral economics...or economists are probably the ones that are bending them in the correct direction. I don't think it's going to be that hard to bend economics a little to accommodate what's right in psychology."
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"Every ideology is contrary to human psychology."
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"Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself."
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"[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty."
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"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"
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"Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life."
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"Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right."
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"Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane."
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"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
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"He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth."
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"Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop."
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"All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies."
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"If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology."
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