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The layman always means, when he says "reality" that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.

— Wolfgang Pauli

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When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of "symbolic images."

Letter to Markus Fierz (1948)

I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.

All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.

I cannot believe God is a weak left-hander.

That is why society is in such danger whenever fresh knowledge threatens to explode the old spiritual forms.

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