Since it is universally believed that man is merely what his consciousness knows of itself, he regards himself as harmless and so adds stupidity to iniquity. He does not deny that terrible things have happened and still go on happening, but it is always “the others” who do them.
 Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self (1959). copy citation

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Author Carl Jung
Source The Undiscovered Self
Topic stupidity consciousness
Date 1959
Language English
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Note Translated by R. F. C. Hull
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