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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
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The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928) -
The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
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The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
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The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Ethics -
The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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