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Psychological literature12 quotes
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung · 1933The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung · 1933Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. — Carl Jung · 1921People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung · 1944Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — Carl Jung · 1912All 12 quotes →Autobiography and memoir1 quote
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. — Carl Jung · 1962