People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Facing oneself Existential terror Self-knowledge Distraction Human nature

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Psychology and Alchemy

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Psychiatrist Psychologist Writer

From

Switzerland Europe

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychologie un Alchemie [Psychology and Alchemy] Routledge, 1944.

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Another quote by Carl Jung

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Carl Jung

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Topic
Fanaticism
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Carl Jung
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1935 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Lecture five of the Tavistock lectures. 1935, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings. Routledge, 2014, pt. 1, lecture 5.

Another quote from the 1940s

Talk or dance, but, don't do both things at the same time.

Gilda

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Dancing
Speaker
Gilda
Actor
Rita Hayworth
Source
Gilda
Medium
Film
Genre
Film noir Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Gilda. Directed by Charles Vidor, Columbia Pictures, 1946.

Another quote about Human nature

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasions for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Discourses on Livy

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Topic
Political theory Government Human nature

Author

Niccolo Machiavelli
Source
Discourses on Livy
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
Italian
Time
1531 1530s 16th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Machiavelli, Niccolò. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio [Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy]. Papal Privilege, 1531, bk. 1, ch. 3

Current Citation

Machiavelli, Niccolo. Discourses on Livy, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 3.

Another quote from 1944

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic
Redistribution of wealth

Author

George Bernard Shaw
Source
Everybody's Political What's What?
Genre
Political literature
Language
English
Time
1944 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Everybody's Political What's What? Constable & Company/Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944, ch. 30.

Another quote originally in German

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs

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Men and women
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Madame Venus

Author

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Source
Venus in Furs
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1870 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus im Pelz [Venus in Furs]. Stuttgart, 1870.

Current Citation

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus in Furs, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2000.