[b]C.G. Jung
If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.[/b]
Of course we all know that it makes no difference.
A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one.
Okay, but how about a billion?
You are what you do, not what you say you will do.
The guy was a fucking genuis!
But if we understand anything of the unconscious, we know that it cannot be swallowed. We also know that it is dangerous to suppress it, because the unconscious is life and this life turns against us if suppressed, as happens in neurosis.
No getting around that, right, Mr. Objectivist? Well, except for you, of course.
Man becomes whole, integrated, calm, fertile, and happy when (and only when) the process of individuation is complete, when the conscious and the unconscious have learned to live at peace and to complement one another.
Let’s file this one under, “the mother of all general descriptions.”
The father too for some of us.
It would be a ridiculous and unwarranted presumption on our part if we imagined that we were more energetic or more intelligent than the men of the past—our material knowledge has increased, but not our intelligence.
Not counting, say, the slaveowners: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_slave_owners