I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
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More Quotes from Carl Jung
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
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To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it.
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.