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“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
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“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England”
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—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England”
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“What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?”
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“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
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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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David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Romance
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