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Carl Jung19 quotes

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt. — Carl Jung · 1935 You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958 Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, or morphine or idealism. — Carl Jung · 1962 Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung · 1933 The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung · 1933 Without 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 · 1921 All 19 quotes →

Jean-Jacques Rousseau13 quotes

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the cause of its destruction. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1755 Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1781 Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1781 Censorship is crucial for preserving morals but useless for restoring them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 All 13 quotes →

Paul Klee3 quotes

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. — Paul Klee · 1920 There is always something spiritual about the approach of winter. You retire into your innermost chambers and camp near the small glow you find there. — Paul Klee Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.. .Color and I are one. I am a painter. — Paul Klee · 1959

Henri-Frederic Amiel2 quotes

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also-He above all-is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended. — Henri-Frederic Amiel · 1849 The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri-Frederic Amiel · 1883

Johann Kaspar Lavater2 quotes

The public seldom forgive twice. — Johann Kaspar Lavater · 1773 The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. — Johann Kaspar Lavater · 1787

Le Corbusier2 quotes

A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier · 1923 A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. — Le Corbusier · 1937

Max Frisch2 quotes

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again-surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image. — Max Frisch · 1954 Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. — Max Frisch · 1957

Alain de Botton1 quote

Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows. — Alain de Botton · 2010

Alberto Giacometti1 quote

In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto Giacometti

Cesar Ritz1 quote

The customer is never wrong. — Cesar Ritz · 1908

Friedrich Durrenmatt1 quote

What was once thought can never be unthought. — Friedrich Durrenmatt · 1962

Karl Barth1 quote

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. — Karl Barth · 1957