"I know every numbskull will babble on..." - Quote by Carl Jung
I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.
More by Carl Jung
“A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.”
“Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.”
“Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.”
More on Ignorance
“People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.”
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?”
“The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'”
More on Reality
“What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?”
“Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.”
“The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.”