Quote #97
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
More from Carl Jung
- The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands. (Comment upon Freudian psychology).
- The foundation of all mental illness is the avoidance of true suffering.
- The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitute…
- The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
- The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Superstition and accident manifest the will of God.
- The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility,…