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Carl Jung quotes

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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning—for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.” Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.” Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self
“As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.” Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self
“If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and all fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.” Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self

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The Undiscovered Self (3)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (3)
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (2)