It is true that modern man is a culmination, but tomorrow he will be surpassed; he is indeed the end-product of an age-old development, but he is at the same time the worst conceivable disappointment of the hopes of humankind.
 Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933). copy citation

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Author Carl Jung
Source Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Topic disappointment age
Date 1933
Language English
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Note Translated by W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes
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