Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Tag: Social Sciences

  • Carl Jung Quote for 16APR 2014 ~ Catastrophes

    “The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then…

  • Mindfulness of Life – Poetry of the Day 25MAR 2014

    When we understand that life is short and Time is precious and if we will have developed Some understanding of the Dharmma and life wisdom, It becomes more precious. Do not procrastinate, Do what should be done today, We don’t know whether we will be still alive tomorrow. Today, now, do what should be done,…

  • Freudian Words of the Day 22Feb 2014 ~ Oedipus Complex

    “Religion is the universal obsessional neurosis of mankind; like the obsessional neurosis of children, arouse out of the Oedipus complex, out of the relation to the father… [It is] a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.” “The God–Creator is openly called father. Psychoanalysis…

  • Quote of the Day 27 January 2014 – Rhetoric

    Yeah, about the test… The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling…

  • Quote of the Day 16 January 2014 – World

    “I don’t think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don’t think it’s one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them–as many as there are people–because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect,…

  • Quote of the Day 13 January 2014 – Relationships

    “Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and…

  • Quote of the Day 3 January 2013 – Commitment

    I’m convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It’s a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human…

  • Quote of the Day 21 December 2013 – Relationships

    “Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and…

  • Quote of the Day 12 October 2013 ~ Going to Sleep

      Going to sleep is a little like dying. We completely lose ourselves in a void for some period of time, until we arise again in a dream. When we do so, we may have a different identity and a different body. We may be in a strange place, with people we do not know,…