Carl Jung

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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.

  The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97

  • Love
  • Power

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 326

  • Life & Death

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  • Pride

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