Carl Jung

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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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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.
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.
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 element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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 more.
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.
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 and equanimity.
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.

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