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“Athletics is in my blood.”

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Ethiopian long-distance runner widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes in the history of long-distance running. He has won numerous Olympic, World Championship, and World Marathon Majors titles. more

“The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.”

“Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.”

Disease Doctors Medicine Patient Cures

Author:Carl Jung

“One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.”

Men Might Powerful Greatness Genius Findings Instinct Crowds Impulse Despise Herds Renounce Pastures

Book:Psychology of the Unconscious

Source: Psychology of the Unconscious

“There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.”

World Needs Reality Order Jesus Christ Example Highest Optimism Salvation Redemption Shameful Indestructible

Book:Psychology of the Unconscious

Source: Psychology of the Unconscious

“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”

Men Humans Law Night Human Beings Animal Break Dangerous Instinct Destructive Lions Primitive Bulls Herds Nuisance Fetch Primitive Man Law Breakers

Author:Carl Jung

“Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.”

Certain Individual Succeed Mass Intellectual Mythology Throwing Supremacy

Book:Psychology of the Unconscious

Source: Psychology of the Unconscious

“The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.”

Humans Body Psychology Unions Separation Biology Artificial Premises Human Psyche

Author:Carl Jung

“Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.”

Whole Reality Evil Half Recognition Paradoxical Converting

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.”

Dream Reality Clear Materials Series Arise Yield Contradictory Nonsensical

Book:Psychology of the Unconscious

Source: Psychology of the Unconscious

“Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.”

Doe Humanity Sleep Envy

Book:Psychology of the Unconscious

Source: Psychology of the Unconscious

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