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"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."
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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

"You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store."

"It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered."

"Give me a book, she said. "A book of sermons, anything."What do you want a book for?"I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose."
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"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. -Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England."

"The mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection."

"Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided."

"But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!"

"If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love."

"I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears."

"We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee."

"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
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