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

~Carl Jung

Topics: Does Fool Him Person Regard Tends Understand

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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

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

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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

~Carl Jung

Topics: Blood Books Contained Fully History Lives Our Realized Thick Very Who

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

~Carl Jung

Topics: After Does Foundations He Increase Know Knowledge Knows Least Man Mistakes Thing Truth

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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Accustomed Actions Animals Better Due Explanations Fact Far Grown Instincts Observe Our Ourselves Own Position Rational Seeking Than Them

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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Belief Believe Certain Difficult Difficult Thing Either Hypothesis Know Me Must Need Reason Then Thing Word

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

~Carl Jung

Topics: Comprehensible Cope Cure Darkness Definite Does Evil Help Understanding

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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Always Just Music Noise Scream

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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Before Carries Demands Different Different Way Go He Him His History Hope Machine Man Mankind Occasion Other Purposes Quite Regularly Structure The History Of Very Way Whole Will Written

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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Am Case Climb Could Down Earth Hand Having Little Out Pilgrim Progress Reach Thousand Until I Am

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Psychologist

Born: July 26th, 1875

Died: June 6th, 1961

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