The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Quote by Carl Jung

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome...

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in...

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine...

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine...

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman...

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman...

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first...

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first...

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as...

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as...

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree...

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree...

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who...

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who...

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as...

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as...

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest...

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest...

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never...

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never...

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that...

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that...

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there...

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there...

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.