Man is never helped in his suffering by what he thinks for himself, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than his own. It is this which lifts him out of his distress.
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I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himselfCarl Gustav Jung
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
Carl Gustav Jung
One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms
Carl Gustav Jung
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl Gustav Jung
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology
Carl Gustav Jung
I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know. The nave person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one's fellows about anything that is unknown to them. They pardon such ruthless behavior only in a writer, journalist or poet.
Carl Gustav Jung
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