Decades Quote by Carl Jung

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

— Heinrich Heine

“...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth…

— John Piper

I confess, that practically speaking, when I have learneda man's real disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better or worse…

— Henry David Thoreau

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

— Sigmund Freud

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

— Renee Vivien

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other…

— Walter Raleigh

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present…

— Chanakya

“But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven…

— Sydney J. Harris

Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.

— Lawrence Wright

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing…

— Giacomo Leopardi