Fortune Quote #2891

I trust that it does not conflict with the principles of scientific
empiricism if one occasionally makes certain reflections which go beyond a
mere accumulation and classification of experience. -- Carl Gustav
Jung

Fortune Quote #2890

The ethics of the researcher require him to admit where his knowledge
comes to an end. This end is the beginning of true wisdom. -- Carl
Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2889

By a strange enantiodromia, the Christian spirit of the West has become
the defender of the irrational, since, in spite of having fathered
rationalism and intellectualism, it has not succumbed to them so far as to
give up its belief in the rights of man, and especially the freedom of the
individual. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2888

Neologisms tend not only to hypostatize themselves to an amazing degree,
but actually to replace the reality they were originally intended to
express. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2887

Our dependence on words is so strong that a philosophical brand
of "existentialism" had to restore the balance by pointing to a reality
that exists in spite of words -- at considerable risk, however, of concepts
such as "existence," "existential," etc. turning into more words which
delude us into thinking we have caught a reality. -- Carl Gustav
Jung

Fortune Quote #2886

How can kids know so much and still be so dumb? -- Calvin's
Mom, "Calvin and Hobbes" (by Bill Watterson)

Fortune Quote #2885

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place. --
Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes" (by Bill Watterson)

Fortune Quote #2884

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they
are? -- Hobbes, "Calvin and Hobbes" (by Bill Watterson)

Fortune Quote #2883

Life is full of suprises, but never when you need one. --
Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes" (by Bill Watterson)

Fortune Quote #2882

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it
again. -- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes" (by Bill Watterson)