The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche Quotes

“As ordering operators and image formers in this world of symbolic images, the archetypes thus function as the sought-for bridge between the sense perceptions and the ideas and are, accordingly, a necessary presupposition even for evolving a scientific theory of nature. However, one must guard against transferring this
a priori of knowledge into the conscious mind and relating it to definite ideas capable of rational formulation.”
― Wolfgang Pauli, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche: The Work of Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli

“.....what is the nature of the bridge between the sense perceptions and the concepts?”
― Wolfgang Pauli, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche

“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.”
― Wolfgang Pauli, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche

“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.”
― Wolfgang Pauli, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche