Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Judging the past Past and present

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Synchronizität Als Ein Prinzip Akausaler Zusammenhänge [Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle]

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Psychiatrist Psychologist Writer

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Switzerland Europe

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Synchronizität Als Ein Prinzip Akausaler Zusammenhänge [Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle]. Princeton University Press, 1960.

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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
Speaker
Carl Jung
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1935 1930s 20th century
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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 1950s

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

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Topic
Old age Death

Author

Dylan Thomas
Source
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Thomas, Dylan. "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Botteghe Oscure, 1951.

Another quote originally in German

In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Topic
Nature of women Men and women

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Beyond Good and Evil
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1886 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 134.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 134.