The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. The numinosum is dangerous because it lures men to extremes, so that a modest truth is regarded as the truth and a minor mistake is equated with fatal error.
 Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962). copy citation

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Author Carl Jung
Source Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Topic truth error
Date 1962
Language English
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Note Translated by Richard and Clara Winston
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