There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

Quoted in The Times of London

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Topic

Night and day Happiness Sadness Yin and yang

Speaker

Carl Jung

Source

The Times of London

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Psychiatrist Psychologist Writer

From

Switzerland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jung, Carl. "The Art of Living." Sunday Times, 17 July 1960.

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Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Carl Jung

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Topic
Fanaticism
Speaker
Carl Jung
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1935 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Lecture five of the Tavistock lectures. 1935, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings. Routledge, 2014, pt. 1, lecture 5.

Another quote from the 1960s

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Topic
Hope Definition

Author

Mignon McLaughlin
Source
The Neurotic's Notebook
Language
English
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's Notebook. ‎The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963, ch. 5.

Another quote about Happiness

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic
Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
German
Time
1898 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.