Philosophy Quotes

"The quality of one's life is determined largely by the quality of one's thinking."

"Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent."

"Strong emotions are the conditioned responses of our accumulated experiences."

"In understanding ourselves, we understand the universe itself."

"In every human gesture lies a story written by our past experiences."

"What we call consciousness is merely the awareness of our own conditioned responses."

"What appears supernatural is merely natural law not yet understood."

"What we observe is not reality itself but our conditioned perception of reality."

"To be a physician is to be a student of life, death, and the space between."

"I have dedicated my life to the principle that knowledge is power, and power should serve life."

"The self is made manifest in the mandala, which represents the wholeness of the psyche."

"The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images."

"A psychoanalyst who does not experience the crisis of meaning cannot be of much use to his patients."

"Analytical psychology explores the unconscious mind, the source of all our symbols and dreams."

"The complexes are imaginal entities that behave like independent beings in the human psyche."

"The alchemical opus parallels the individuation process of the human psyche."

"The process of individuation is the central purpose of human existence."

"In mythology, the hero's journey represents the individuation process of the human soul."

"Every neurosis is ultimately a failure of meaning."

"Synchronicity suggests that the inner and outer worlds are not separate."

"The collective unconscious is activated through archetypal symbols in art and literature."

"The human race must perforce prey upon itself, like all carnivorous races."

"The foundation of all ethics is to consider oneself as a cell in the body of humanity."

"A person does not act because, as the lay term would suggest, he is free to act or not to act. He acts because of prior causes."

"Let me make a point very clear: I do not believe in free will."

"The future of humanity depends on our ability to design better environmental contingencies."

"The essence of being human is not consciousness but the capacity to be shaped by contingencies."

"We become what our contingencies make us, not what we wish to be."

"Belief in personal agency is often an illusion created by incomplete understanding of contingencies."

"Taking evolutionary history seriously means acknowledging that the living world is not separate from us but is us"