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I cannot believe God is a weak left-hander.

— 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.

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

At the dawn of religion, all the knowledge of a particular community fitted into a spiritual framework, based largely on religious values and ideas.

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