"I believe that history is capable of..." - Quote by Carl Jung
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
More by Carl Jung
“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”
“When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.”
“Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.”
More on History
“Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.”
“Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.”
“I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.”
More on Human Nature
“Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.”
“There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.”
“Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.”