"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic..." - Quote by Carl Jung
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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“Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.”
“The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.”
“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
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“Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.”
“Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.”
“Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.”
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“Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.”
“In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.”
“Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'”