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Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.


Gustav Heinemann

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CARL GUSTAV JUNG The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who loo...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all th...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and s...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of m...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid
CARL GUSTAV JUNG