Quote of the day

“It is of no importance whether evil is here or there, but one can deal only with the evil within oneself, because it is within one’s reach; elsewhere, one trespasses”.

Carl Jung

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“The menu is not the meal.”

–Alan Watts

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.”

–Carl Jung

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“I am very honored to be Chinese, but I am jealous that you are Chinese Communist Party members.”

–Jackie Chan

That’s a bizarre thing to say. What was the context? Was he taking the piss?

C’mon, this is Jackie Chan we’re talking about.

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:man_facepalming:

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His pivot in that direction is ancient news, man! That rock you live under in Elbonia must be quite heavy. :grandpa:

It’s really news to me. I make sure to stay under my rock whenever possible. It’s mad out there.

(slam)

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“You young ones have this to look forward to–you too will get old and salty.”

@stinsonlover

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“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”

–Aleister Crowley

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“A model is a lie that helps you see the truth.”
– Howard Skipper:

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“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”

–T.S. Eliot

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“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”

–Dumas

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“Propaganda becomes ineffective the moment we are aware of it”
– Joseph Goebbels

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Quotation or paraphrase? :thinking:

Since it was (allegedly) spoken in German, I guess it’s a paraphase …

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

–Ray Bradbury

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The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative.

Claudia Koonz , The Nazi Conscience , London and Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University (2004) p. 13. Quote from March, 1933.

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