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Social Scientist Inspirational Quotes (68)

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Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.
Marie-Louise von Franz
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Friedrich Engels
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Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.
Marie-Louise von Franz
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And what is impossible to science?
Friedrich Engels
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People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
William B. Munro
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If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities
Marie-Louise von Franz
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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
Friedrich Engels
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As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences.
Marie-Louise von Franz
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
Friedrich Engels
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
Friedrich Engels
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
Friedrich Engels
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Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.
Marie-Louise von Franz
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In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.
Kenneth Keniston
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There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
Marie-Louise von Franz
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One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.
Marie-Louise von Franz
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If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service.
James M. Landis
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Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their children's needs and their own values.... We must address ourselves less to the criticism and reform of parents themselves than to the criticism and reform of the institutions that sap their self-esteem and power.
Kenneth Keniston
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Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?
Marie-Louise von Franz
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Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often than the smart individuals, who tended to think similarly.
Scott E. Page
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The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.
Moses Coady
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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
Friedrich Engels
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A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.
Marie-Louise von Franz
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Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
Friedrich Engels
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Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.
Daniel Yankelovich
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