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The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche QUOTES

The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche QUOTES

1 " .....what is the nature of the bridge between the sense perceptions and the concepts? "

― C.G. Jung , The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche

2 " The process of understanding nature as well as the happiness that man feels in understanding- that is, in the conscious realization or new knowledge- seems thus to be based on a correspondence, a ''matching'' of inner images pre-existent in the human psyche with external objects and their behavior. This interpretation of scientific knowledge, of course, goes back to Plato and is, as we shall see, advocated very clearly by Kepler. "

― C.G. Jung , The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche

3 " Not only alchemy but also the heliocentric idea furnishes instructive examples of the problem as to how the process of knowing is connected with the religious experience of transmutation undergone by him who acquires knowledge [
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]; it transcends natural science and can be comprehended only through symbols, which both express the emotional, feeling aspect of the experience and stand in vital relationship to the sum total of contemporary knowledge and the actual process of cognition. "

― C.G. Jung , The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche