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It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
Essayist
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Kesswil TG
C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
C. G. Yungu
Carl Gustav Jung
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The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.
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...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.
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Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror
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Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force
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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. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
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