The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

A Dostoevsky thread on navigating hard times..  🧵

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Reason alone does not suffice.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.

Exploring the depths of the psyche with Carl Jung!

A thread with 5 quotes from one of psychology's most influential figures.. 👇🧵

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.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, 'divine.'

Charles Bukowski: 'I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.'