Jung Trickster Quotes & Sayings

Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your cordless phone, your telephone plan is suited to your needs, and your various gizmos interact without conflict. Your spouse is athletic, your kids are bright, your job is rewarding, your promotions are inevitable, everywhere you need to be comes with its own accessible parking. You look great in casual slacks. — David Brooks

I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me. — Jim Carrey

There is a figure that links the personal and the collective shadow; it is the Trickster. Jung describes the Trickster as 'the summation of all the inferior traits of character in individuals'. — Christopher Perry

[The figure of the Trickster] is the collective shadow. — C. G. Jung

Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary. — Elisabeth Elliot

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. — Edward Witten