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A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Afternoon Also Being Cannot Certainly Eighty Grow Had Human Human Being Human Life Life Longevity Meaning Merely Morning Must Old Own Pitiful Seventy Significance Species Would Years

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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Christian Christianity Europe Gospel Heard Heathen May Missionary Naked Nothing Poor Preach Spiritual Who

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

~Carl Jung

Topics: Hands Intellect Mystery Often Solve Struggled Vain Will

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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

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

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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Intellect Judgement Only Part Pretend Should Truth Understand World

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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Birth Come Creative Creative Work Debt Ever Fantasy Imagination Owe Play Playing Without Work

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Creative Depreciate Fantasy Imagination Man Origin Right Then Works

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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Because Becomes Cannot Denied Evil Fact Hearts Others Our Own Something Wickedness

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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

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

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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.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Dangerous Easily Fruits Great Hang Humanity Lovely Most Off Often Slender Talents Tree Twig

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Psychologist

Born: July 26th, 1875

Died: June 6th, 1961

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