Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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Carl Jung
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About Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of archetypes. Widely considered one of the most influential psychologists of all time, Jung's work has fostered not only scholarship, but also popular interest. His work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literatur…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Carl JungKnowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital eleme…
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything mor…
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience …
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience …
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.