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All mass movements, as one might expect, slip with the greatest ease down an inclined plane represented by large numbers. Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good.

— Carl Jung The Undiscovered Self (1958)

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No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

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