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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. ”
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. ”
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ”
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. ”
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. ”
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. ”
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge. ”
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. ”
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ”
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. ”