TSonini

“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

“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

“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 meditación de viaje, oyendo silbar el viento entre las jarcias, la humanidad nos pareció como un velero que cruza el tiempo infinito, ignorando su punto de partida y su destino remoto. Sin velas, sería estéril la pujanza del viento; sin viento, de nada servirían las lonas más amplias. La mediocridad es el complejo velamen de las sociedades, las resistencias que éstas oponen al viento para utilizar su pujanza; la energía que infla las velas, y arrastra el buque entero, y lo conduce, y lo orienta, son los idealistas: siempre resistidos por aquélla. Así —resistiéndolos, como las velas al viento—, los rutinarios aprovechan el empuje de los creadores. El progreso humano es la resultante de ese contraste perpetuo entre masas inertes y energías propulsoras.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre