"Whenever you hear anyone talking about a..." - Quote by Carl Jung
Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.
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“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
“The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.”
“You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.”
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“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.”
“Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.”
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
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“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”
“If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.”
“Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.”