“in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists.”
― The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams
― The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams
“I would also urge leaders to remain humble. If you don’t worry about who gets the credit, you get a lot more done.”
― Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
― Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
“Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainly, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one’s waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.”
― An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
― An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.”
― Aion
― Aion
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