What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. - Carl Jung - Quotesmemo.com

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We're trying to make our current house look domestic so that somebody will want to buy it. We're making a lot of simple, obvious improvements that never would have occurred to us to make while we actually lived here, because, tragically, we both happen to be domestically impaired. If we were birds, our nest would consist of a single twig with the eggs attached via Scotch tape.

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Carl Jung

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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For better to come, good must stand aside.

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Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

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Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

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We're trying to make our current house look domestic so that somebody will want to buy it. We're making a lot of simple, obvious improvements that never would have occurred to us to make while we actually lived here, because, tragically, we both happen to be domestically impaired. If we were birds, our nest would consist of a single twig with the eggs attached via Scotch tape.

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