Nothing is more fatal for an intellectual than complicity in his own
censorship. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Fortune Quote #2829
There is no teacher but the enemy. Only the enemy shows you where you are
weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. -- Mazer
Rackham (Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card)
weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. -- Mazer
Rackham (Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card)
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Fortune Quote #2828
Religious experience is absolute; it cannot be disputed. You can only say
that you have never had such an experience, whereupon your opponent will
reply: "Sorry, I have." And there your discussion will come to an
end. -- Carl Gustav Jung
that you have never had such an experience, whereupon your opponent will
reply: "Sorry, I have." And there your discussion will come to an
end. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Monday, April 27, 2020
Fortune Quote #2827
That psychological fact which wields the greatest power in your system
functions as a god, since it is always the overwhelming psychic factor that
is called "God." -- Carl Gustav Jung
functions as a god, since it is always the overwhelming psychic factor that
is called "God." -- Carl Gustav Jung
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Fortune Quote #2826
Even if a neurosis had no cause at all other than imagination, it would,
none the less, be a very real thing. If a man imagined that I was his
arch-enemy and killed me, I should be dead on account of mere
imagination. -- Carl Gustav Jung
none the less, be a very real thing. If a man imagined that I was his
arch-enemy and killed me, I should be dead on account of mere
imagination. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Fortune Quote #2825
I even believe that psychic disturbances are far more dangerous than
epidemics or earthquakes. Not even the medieval epidemics of bubonic
plague or smallpox killed as many people as certain differences of opinion
in 1914 or certain political "ideals" in Russia. -- Carl Gustav Jung
epidemics or earthquakes. Not even the medieval epidemics of bubonic
plague or smallpox killed as many people as certain differences of opinion
in 1914 or certain political "ideals" in Russia. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Friday, April 24, 2020
Fortune Quote #2824
It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be
physical. As a matter of fact, the only form of existence of which we have
immediate knowledge is psychic. -- Carl Gustav Jung
physical. As a matter of fact, the only form of existence of which we have
immediate knowledge is psychic. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Fortune Quote #2823
You know how when you're sitting in a chair, you start pushing against the
floor and tipping the chair backward on its rear legs? And you keep
pushing until, if you tipped the chair back just another fraction of an
inch, you'd fall over? I feel that way all the time. -- Steven
Wright
floor and tipping the chair backward on its rear legs? And you keep
pushing until, if you tipped the chair back just another fraction of an
inch, you'd fall over? I feel that way all the time. -- Steven
Wright
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Fortune Quote #2822
The universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we
can suppose. -- J.B.S. Haldane
can suppose. -- J.B.S. Haldane
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Fortune Quote #2821
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than the game of
golf. -- Will Rogers, 1924
golf. -- Will Rogers, 1924
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