"It is sad but unfortunately true that..." - Quote by Carl Jung
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
More by Carl Jung
“People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.”
“The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.”
“The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.”
More on History
“From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.”
“For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.”
“America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.”
More on Learning
“The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.”
“The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.”
“There is no effort without error or shortcoming.”