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“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces. 

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the thing we have neglected will return with added force.

Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections 

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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. Body and soul therefore have an intensely historical character and find no proper place in what is new, in things that have just come into being. That is to say, our ancestral components are only partly at home in such things. We are very far from having finished completely with the Middle Ages, classical antiquity, and primitivity, as our modern psyches pretend. Nevertheless, we have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future with ever wilder violence the farther it takes us from our roots. Once the past has been breached, it is usually annihilated, and there is no stopping the forward motion. But it is precisely the loss of connection with the past, our uprootedness, which has given rise to the “discontents” of civilization and to such a flurry and haste that we live more in the future and its chimerical promises of a golden age than in the present, with which our whole evolutionary background has not yet caught up. We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction, and restlessness. We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the light of the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of greater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose is. The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity. Reforms by advances, that is, by new methods or gadgets, are of course impressive at first, but in the long run they are dubious and in any case dearly paid for. They by no means increase the contentment or happiness of people on the whole. Mostly, they are deceptive sweetening of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than before. Omnis festinatio ex parts diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.

C.G. Jung; Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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In my picture of the world there is a vast outer realm and an equally vast inner realm; between these two stands man, facing now one and now the other, and , according to his mood or disposition, taking the one for the absolute truth by denying or sacrificing the other.

C.G Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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All to easily does self-criticism poisons one's naïveté, that priceless possession, or rather gift which no creative man can be without.

C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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Faith is the defeat of probability by the power of possibility.

Jonathan Sacks

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Community is when people know who you are and miss you when you're not there.

Jonathan Sacks

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The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

Amos Tversky

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu (via philosophybits)

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“Christianity is a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It tells us how to act, not what we ought to believe.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §212 (excerpt).

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee (via swallowtheredpill)

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Just as one bird does not make a flock, nor one day a season, so one action or a short time cannot make us happy.

Aristotle (via philosophybits)

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If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.

Nikita Gill (via deeplifequotes)

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‪Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss

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"The cry of faith, even if it is a cry against God, moves toward God, has its meaning in God, as in the cries of Job."

Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss

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The time we made Hack Club shirts.