courage Citations

The infirmity of human intelligence is short sight. In too many cases, the wiseacres are dunces of a sort, who lose sight of the simplicity of things, and stifle and obscure it with formulae and trivialities. It is the small things that one learns from books, not the great ones.
And even while they are saying that they do not wish for war they are doing all they can to perpetuate it. They

nourish national vanity and the love of supremacy by force. "We alone," they say, each behind his shelter, "we alone are the guardians of courage and loyalty, of ability and good taste!"

Freedom cannot be expected to tolerate that which would destroy it. Fundamentalist and extremist Islam is incompatible with freedom and Western liberal democracy. The real issue for those wishing to remain free is not an argument about headdress but the threat posed to our freedoms and way of life by a minority of people and how the state chooses to deal with it - if indeed it has the courage to

do so at all.

[ Jung ] nous apprend dans ses Souvenirs que, désorienté par la privation du guide qu'avait été Freud, il traversa alors une période de tourments intérieurs où il connut l'angoisse d'avoir à faire face, seul, à ses démons. Rêves et « visions » le hantèrent; il se crut un instant menacé par la psychose. Il aura désormais, par expérience personnelle, ce qu'il dit quand il parle du

courage nécessaire à la « confrontation avec l'inconscient.»