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“Above all, for Western people with their hypertrophied rationality, the development and expansion of a direct, emotional experience of reality, unobstructed by words and concepts, would be of evolutionary significance. (Aldous Huxley's "Human Resources")”
― LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science
― LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Hope is optimism with a broken heart.”
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― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“One can only discover the mystery of the unconscious as a reality when one is naively curious, not when one wants to harness its power for the furtherance of some conscious design.”
― The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
― The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
“What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.”
― Individuation in Fairy Tales
― Individuation in Fairy Tales
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