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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
Essayist
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C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
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Carl Gustav Jung
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During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
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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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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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But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
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A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.
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Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.
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Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.
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