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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Paradoxically enough, an egocentric (inflated) consciousness is a regression of consciousness into unconsciousness.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Egocentric People, Paradoxes
“An egocentric mind is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Ego, Ego is the Enemy, What Ego Can Do To Your Brain
“Nietzsche overreached himself by identifying his ego with the superman Zarathustra, the part of the personality that was struggling into consciousness. But can we speak of Zarathustra as a part of the personality? Was he not rather something superhuman— something which man is not, though he has his share in it? Is God really dead, because Nietzsche declared that he had not been heard of for a long time? May he not have come back in the guise of the superman?”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Why Nietzsche Is Not A Nihilist, Why Nietzsche Went Insane
“Every archetype is capable of endless development and differentiation.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Archetypes, Structure/Form Is A Starting Point, Emergence Points for Complexity
“My training as an economist has been of help in one important way: It convinced me that the only information that is of value in a financial market is information that other people don’t have.”
— Herbert A. Simon, Models of My Life(MIT Press)
Tagged: Economics, Secret Information, Knowledge Is Power, What You Know (And Others Don't)
“Whenever a piece of information is stored in memory, additional information should be stored with it telling where to find the next (associated) piece of information. In this way the entire memory could be organized like a long string of beads, but with the individual beads of the string stored in arbitrary locations. ‘Nextness’ was not determined by physical propinquity but by an address, or pointer, stored with each item, showing where the associated item was located. Then a bead could be added to a string or omitted from a string simply by changing a pair of addresses, without disturbing the rest of the memory.”
— Herbert A. Simon, Models of My Life(MIT Press)
Tagged: AI Associative Learning, Metaphors
“Some speak of search for their roots. But that is a false metaphor. For these strands that we trace backward through time have no root tips. Each ancestral name and date we identify points back toward two more still hidden in the mists, and behind each of these, yet another pair. The mists that hide the distant past are no less dense, no less impenetrable, than those that shroud the future.”
— Herbert A. Simon, Models of My Life(MIT Press)
Tagged: Roots, Groundless Ground, The Past Is As Murky As The Future
“The past cannot be recaptured. Memory is overlaid with later memory, mangled by self-justification and self-pity, guarded by self-interest, rent by great gaps of forgetfulness.”
— Herbert A. Simon, Models of My Life(MIT Press)
Tagged: Memory, autobiography, Historical Fiction, What Happens To Memory, Quote of the Moment
“These structures are crude and schematic, but as with most of the workings of gender and/or authority, the crude and schematic is usually all too apt.”
— Jane Gallop, Anecdotal Theory
Tagged: Dumb But Right Enough, Crude Models
“It is my contention that the problem is not that gender itself is simplistic, but that it is too clear-cut if we consider it in isolation. If we look for the ways in which gender divides the social world in two, it will appear that it imposes its uncomplicated order on social materials. But part of what makes social experience complex is the fact that the gender binary is always working with and against other identity categories, such as race, class, and sexuality. And not only other identities: gender also encounters other forms— forms of knowledge, forms of narrative, forms of subjectivity, space, administration, education, repetition, circulation, collectivity, worship, and intimacy, among many others.”
— Caroline Levine, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: Relational Taxonomies, Taxonomic Intersection