As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

Light Darkness Purpose Being

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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

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Change Liberate Accept Oppresses

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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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Pain Coming Conscious Without

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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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Debt Play Owe Imagination

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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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Rest Error Truth Knowledge

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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

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Vain Intellect Hand Mystery

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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

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Look Depend Thing How

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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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Hang Talent Dangerous Great

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

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Inferno Pass Through Passion

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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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Heart Enough Brilliant Gratitude

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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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Power Love Shadow Rule

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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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Love Play Creative Mind

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The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.

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Human Subject Declare Rational

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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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Least Life Worth Greatest

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To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

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Right Problem Solution Ask

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To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

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Dream Part Nature Intention

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The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

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Passive Capacity Intuition Intellect

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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

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Between Human Qualities Little

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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

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Fact Individual Mind Avoid

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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality.

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Power Rest Turn Moral

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whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

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Apply Good Lacking Supply

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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

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Compel Create Subtitute External

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A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

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Dream Remain Understood Mere

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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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Special Ability Heavy Energy

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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

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Pretend Understand World Intellect

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If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

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Lonely Knows Man Becomes

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I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

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Regret Follies Sprang Obstinacy

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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

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Change Begin Single Individual

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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

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Greatest Important Problem Outgrown

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When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes – their ability to offer new points of view.

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Infinite Dream Conceive Procedure

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"30 Carl Jung Quotes & Sayings

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Carl Jung

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

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.

Carl Jung

The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.

Carl Jung

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Carl Jung

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Carl Jung

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Carl Jung

The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

Carl Jung

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Carl Jung

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality.

Carl Jung

whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Carl Jung

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Carl Jung

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung

I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

Carl Jung

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

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