"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of..." - Quote by Carl Jung

“The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.”

“Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.”

“We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.”

“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”

“Your best teacher is your last mistake.”

“A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.”

“Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.”

“No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.”

“I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.”