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No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.

— Carl Jung Paracelsus the Physician (1942)

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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.

The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)

Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954)

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

The more a man's life is shaped by the collective norms, the greater is his individual immorality.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)

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