# Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 16 ![rw-book-cover](https://books.google.com/books/content?id=yxE3AgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=public) ## Metadata - Author: [[C. G. Jung]] - Full Title: Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 16 - Category: #books ## Highlights - each of us can carry the torch of knowledge but a part of the way, until another takes it from him. If only we could understand all this impersonally-could understand that we are not the personal creators of our truths, but only their exponents, mere mouthpieces of the day's psychic needs, then much venom and bitterness might be spared and we should be able to perceive the profound and suprapersonal continuity of the human mind. (Page 69) - The needs and necessities of mankind are manifold. What sets one man free is another man's prison. (Page 70) - One cannot help any patient to advance further than one has advanced oneself. (Page 78) - an instinct is always and inevitably coupled with something like a philosophy of life, however archaic, unclear, and hazy this may be. (Page 81) - Instinct stimulates thought, and if a man does not think of his own free will, then you get compulsive thinking, for the two poles of the psyche, the physiological and the mental, are indissolubly connected. For this reason instinct cannot be freed without freeing the mind, just as mind divorced from instinct is condemned to futility. (Page 81) - Theories are not articles of faith, they are either instruments of knowledge and of therapy, or they are no good at all. (Page 88) - Medicine too is doubtless aware that sick people exist as well as sicknesses; but psychotherapy knows first and foremost-or rather should know-that its proper concern is not the fiction of a neurosis but the distorted totality of the human being. (Page 88) - This image alone is the immediate object of knowledge. The existence of the world has two conditions: it to exist, and us to know it. (Page 89) - But in so far as he is also a part of the world, he carries the world in himself (Page 95) - in so far as political aims and the State are to claim precedence, psychotherapy would inevitably become the instrument of a particular political system, and it is to its aims that people would have to be educated and at the same time seduced from their own highest destiny. (Page 104) - Nevertheless, it was the great and imperishable achievement of Christianity that, in contrast to these archaic systems which are all based on the original projection of psychic contents, it gave to each individual man the dignity of an immortal soul, whereas in earlier times this prerogative was reserved to the sole person of the king. (Page 105) - Society is the greatest temptation to unconsciousness, for the mass infallibly swallows up the individual-who has no security in himself-and reduces him to a helpless particle. (Page 107) - N.B. Pestalozzi evidently subscribes to the Germanic distinction between Kultur and Zivilisation, where the latter term is employed in a pejorative sense. The idea is that culture, deriving ultimately from tillage and worship (cultus), is a natural organic growth, whereas civilization is an affair of the city (civis) and thus something artificial. (Page 109) - Note: German etymology of culture and civilization - You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.