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

Imagination Debt Owe Incalculable Play

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

Intelligence Will Vain Solve Struggled Mystery Intellect Hands Often

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation. Jean Piaget

You Learning Intelligence Situation Neither Particular Know Nor Use Prepared

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales

Time You Try Difficulties Bend Gentleness Encounter Contradictions Break Them

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Alice Miller

Forgiveness Anger Faces Head-On Genuine Does Deny

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Carl Jung

Life Problem Half Resort Hundreds Say Those Finding Religious Outlook Over Been Patients Many Whose Among Second Last Treated

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. Paracelsus

If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours. Tariq Ramadan

Sad Freedom Respect People Speak Debate Visible Ours Out Critical Mutual Mutual Respect More Constructive Imperative Importance Know Ready Cherish Expect Committed Establish Then Choice Painful Who Aware Tomorrows Necessity

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. Carl Jung

Darkness Evil Understanding Definite Comprehensible Does Cure Inasmuch Help Cope

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung

Pure Extrovert Asylum Would Would-Be Introvert Person Thing Lunatic

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself. Carl Jung

Young Duty Too Danger Almost Attention Sin Devote Himself Least Person Young Person Ageing Preoccupied Serious Necessity

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. Carl Jung

Truth Psychic Collective Resting Disposition Think Society Relation Broad Our Shall Bears Individual Unconscious Get Personal Same Psyche Which Inherited Nearest Conscious Universal Basis

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. Paracelsus

Ethics Medicine Philosophy Astronomy Rests Pillars Four Alchemy

Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable. Saint Francis de Sales

Work Love Service Family Husband And Wife Matter Wife Husband Faithful Become Cares Pleasant Our Mutual More Through Between Sincere Prince Devotion Becomes Owe Your Agreeable Peaceful

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung

Fool Tends Him Understand Does Person Regard

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Carl Jung

Man Become Press Unconscious Contents Task Upward Conscious

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. Carl Jung

Self Developed Buddha Highly Perhaps Importance Most Greatest Greatest Importance Psychology Apart Far Figure Differentiated Symbol

It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. Charles Albert Gobat

Today Reality Progress Political Tomorrow Hopeless Become Endeavor Those Laugh Would Logic Constant Plunge True Conceived Fresh Am Ultimate Ultimate Goal Goal Optimistic Human Regards Which Social Mankind Pessimism Who Utopia

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