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The young prince Siddhartha Gautama was sheltered by his father from all knowledge of suffering, for a prophecy had foretold he would become either a great king or a Buddha.

The value of a unit of currency is not the measure of the value of an object, but the measure of one's trust in other human beings.

I certainly think that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, for fortune is a woman, and it is necessary, if you with to master her, to conquer her by force; and it can be seen that she lets herself be overcome by the bold rather than by those who p…

“The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.”

Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries,

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away...

Jung uses the phrase “objective psyche” to discuss the view that the unconscious is a realm of “objects” (complexes and archetypal images) as much as the surrounding world is a realm of persons and things.

Jung has some thought-provoking reflections to offer on the question of how free the will actually is.

Everyone feels where he should approach or withdraw, or rather, something attracts or repels him, and so there is no need for investigation or explanation.

It seems certain that we do not feel comfortable in our present-day civilization, but it is very difficult to form an opinion whether and in what degree men of an earlier age felt happier and what part their cultural conditions played in the matter.