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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."

"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
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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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