With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.
Carl JungAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist
- Nationality: swiss
- Born: July 26, 1875
- Died: June 6, 1961
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scythes?”
“No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in
front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture’s symbols is a common root of
prejudice
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