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. - Carl Jung
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. - Carl Jung
Sensation tells us a thing is. Thinking tells us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. - Carl Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. - Carl Jung
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
