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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
Essayist
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Kesswil TG
C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
C. G. Yungu
Carl Gustav Jung
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For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
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The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.
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I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.
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So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Only the wounded physician heals.
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Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
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The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
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I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.
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Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
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As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
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The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.
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Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
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The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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The sure path can only lead to death.
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In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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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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The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.
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