“To accept a trial is to thank God for it, with the understanding that it permits us a victory, a detachment with regard to the world and with regard to the ego.”
[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 44, 978-1-93659700-0]
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Context: As regards drink, I can only say that in Dublin during the Depression when I was growing up, drunkenness was not regarded as a social disgrace. To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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“Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992)
Context: Who knows what schools will be like twenty-five years from now? Or fifty? In time, the type of student who is currently a failure may be considered a success. The type who is now successful may be regarded as a handicapped learner — slow to respond, far too detached, lacking in emotion, inadequate in creating mental pictures of reality. Consider: what Thamus called the "conceit of wisdom" — the unreal knowledge acquired through the written word — eventually became the pre-eminent form of knowledge valued by the schools. There is no reason to suppose that such a form of knowledge must always remain so highly valued.
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
C.G. Jung book Mysterium Coniunctionis
Mysterium Coniunctionis http://books.google.com/books?id=avckAQAAMAAJ&q=%22If+one+does+not+understand+a+person+one+tends+to+regard+him+as+a+fool%22&pg=PA125#v=onepage, from The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (1966)
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VII, 19
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