"What you call knowledge is an attempt..." - Quote by Carl Jung
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
More by Carl Jung
“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.”
“You always become the thing you fight the most.”
More on Knowledge
“Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.”
“Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.”
“Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.”
More on Life
“I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.”
“The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.”
“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.”