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“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Wanneer niemand het me vraagt, weet ik het. Maar wanneer iemand het me vraagt, weet ik het niet”
― Augustinus: Die Bekenntnisse - Confessiones: Bereicherte Ausgabe. Eine der einflussreichsten autobiographischen Texte der Weltliteratur
― Augustinus: Die Bekenntnisse - Confessiones: Bereicherte Ausgabe. Eine der einflussreichsten autobiographischen Texte der Weltliteratur
“[...] every individual can reconcile the conflicting elements of his personality: He can strike a balance that makes him truly human [...].”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
“There are philosophers who have repudiated the goal of truth -- Nietzsche, for example, who argued that there are no truths, only interpretations. But you need only ask yourself whether what Nietzsche says is true, to realize how paradoxical it is. (If it is true, then it is false! -- an instance of the so-called 'liar' paradox.) Likewise, the French philosopher Michel Foucault repeatedly argues as though the 'truth' of an epoch has no authority outside of the power-structure that endorses it. There is no trans-historical truth about the human condition. But again, we should ask ourselves whether that last statement is true: for if it is true, it is false. There has arisen among modernist philosophers a certain paradoxism which has served to put them out of communication with those of their contemporaries who are merely modern. A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is "merely relative," is asking you not to believe him. So don't.”
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“The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.”
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