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Meaning
The speaker is saying that complete sanity may be impossible, or at least hard to define, because every person has some kind of flaw or imbalance. It suggests that human minds are more complicated than a simple label of “sane” or “insane.”
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Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
No source found on Wikiquote; the quote is listed as attributed to Carl Jung.
Did You Know?
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who lived from 1875 to 1961.
About Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded analytical psychology. He became one of the major figures of twentieth-century psychology and is best known for his idea of archetypes. Jung wrote more than twenty books and also worked as an illustrator, correspondent, and academic. His ideas have influenced psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies, and his writing continues to attract both scholars and general readers.
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