Quote #16

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

More from Carl Jung

  1. Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously refl…
  2. The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate r…
  3. It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions a…
  4. Reason alone does not suffice.
  5. Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real just…
  6. We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a 'metamorphosis of the gods,' i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols. T…
  7. The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
  8. Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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