8. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
9. Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
10. It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
11. 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.
12. The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the
archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal
images.
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13. Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams
and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
14. The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They
can never be solved but only outgrown.
15. Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the
second half of life of its purpose.
16. For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with
himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to
himself
17. Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
18. Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the
unconscious has become a question of life for us.
19. All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to
depreciate imagination?
20. Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
21. Everyone knows nowadays that people have complexes. What is not so well known,
though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
22. Mans task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the
unconscious.
23. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
24. Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very
blood?
25. If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.