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“The philosophical study of morality—of right and wrong—is ethics. Such study can render us more sophisticated in our choices. Even older and deeper than ethics, however, is religion. Religion concerns itself not with (mere) right and wrong but with good and evil themselves—with the archetypes of right and wrong.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“En la vida se es actor o público, timonel o galeote. Es tan doloroso pasar del timón al remo, como salir del escenario para ocupar una butaca, aunque ésta sea de primera fila. El que ha conocido el aplauso no sabe resignarse a la oscuridad; ésa es la parte más cruel de toda preeminencia fundada en el capricho ajeno o en aptitudes físicas transitorias. El público oscila con la moda; el físico se gasta. La fama de un orador, de un esgrimista o de un comediante, sólo dura lo que una juventud; la voz, las estocadas y los gestos se acaban alguna vez, dejando lo que en el bello decir dantesco representa el dolor sumo: recordar en la miseria el tiempo feliz.
Para estos triunfadores accidentales, el instante en que se disipa su error debería ser el último de la vida. Volver a la realidad es una suprema tristeza.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“When we first began to perceive the unknown, chaotic, non-animal world, we used categories that had originally evolved to represent the pre-human animal social world. Our minds are far older than mere humanity.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Cases are found of people apparently normal, showing no special neurotic symptoms—perhaps themselves doctors instructing others—priding themselves on their normality, models of good upbringing, with particularly normal views and habits of life, yet whose normality is an artificial compensation for a latent psychosis. Of course these cases do not often confront the institutional psychiatrist. Those in this condition do not themselves suspect it. A certain presentiment perhaps finds indirect expression in the individual's special interest in psychology and psychiatry, if he is drawn to such things as the moth to the light. Since the analytical technique brings the unconscious into evidence it destroys in these cases the salutary compensation that existed, and the unconscious breaks out in the form of uncontrollable phantasies and consequent conditions of excitement, which under certain circumstances may lead directly to a psychical disorder, and even eventually to suicide.”
― Carl Jung