Clifton Brown Favourite Quotes Collection

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl JungImagination 120
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Gustav JungLight 100
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The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl JungHappy 122
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl JungHistory 121
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Gustav JungTalent 114
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl JungChange 130
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl JungPower 139
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Gustav JungMistakes 123
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Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!
Carl Gustav JungIdeology 123
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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 JungImagination 125
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Gustav JungPromises 121
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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.
Carl JungIntelligence 140
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This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
Carl Gustav JungArt 126
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl JungChemical 123
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Gustav JungPassion 159
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jungdeath 144
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Gustav JungMasses 173
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The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Carl JungFear 192
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl JungDream 214
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Gustav JungRecovery 206
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There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl Gustav JungEmotions 209
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
Friedrich NietzscheSpirituality 182
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Friedrich NietzscheChange 181
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Friedrich NietzscheReading 207
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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich NietzscheLove 209
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The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
Friedrich NietzscheAcceptance 236
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich NietzscheAbyss 467
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The prettiest smiles hides the deepest secrets. The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears, and the kindest hearts have felt the most pain
Smile 7,460
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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
Richard PerleControl 95
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We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton OurslerBetween 125
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Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton OurslerBetween 129
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Worrying is carrying tomorrows load with todays strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesnt empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
Corrie ten BoomPresent Future Past 134
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte BronteDream 199
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