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The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
Essayist
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
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Kesswil TG
C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
C. G. Yungu
Carl Gustav Jung
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It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
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Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.
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So often among so-called primitives one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.
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I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
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It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
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We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.
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