Marie Von Franz Quotes

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me. (p.531) — Storm Constantine

I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill. — Natalie Portman

All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou — Kim Thompson-Pinder

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot. — Rory Stewart

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

Having a 2 year old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for. — Jerry Seinfeld

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

One has to consider what effect it would have on one to have to accept the fact that God was not the friendly guardian of kindergarten! — Marie-Louise Von Franz

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of ... mature people is of crucial importance. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail? — Marie-Louise Von Franz

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all ... — Marilynne Robinson

It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us. — Marie-Louise Von Franz