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Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into the primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.
Philip Larkin, fully Philip Arthur Larkin
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, and leaves what something hidden from us chose, and age, and then the only end of age... Time has transfigured them into untruth. The stone fidelity they hardly meant has come to be their final blazon, and to prove our almost-instinct almost true: what will survive of us is love.
Age | Fear | Fidelity | Instinct | Life | Life | Love | Time | Will | Wisdom |
Lucan, full name Marcus Annaeus Lucanus NULL
As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.
Earth | Integrity | Self | Self-interest | Wisdom |
Marshall McLuhan, fully Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions (in Pascal’s sense) is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of “choice” when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste fore natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.
Childhood | Heart | Honor | Life | Life | Men | Progress | Regret | Taste | Time | Wealth | Wisdom | World |
Romances, in general, are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
Imagination | Judgment | Wisdom |