Rudeness is the weak mans imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind The internet has connected the world, but it has also unleashed a torrent of hostility. The primary source of this hostility isthe onlinehater. Hidden behind a

The difficulties of our psychotherapeutic work teach us to take truth, goodness, and beauty where we find them. They are not always found where we look for them: often they are hidden in the dirt or are in the keeping of the dragon. Carl Jung, Collected

The modern West is in decline. Economic stagnation, rising tax burdens, moral disorientation, political corruption, bloated bureaucracies, and soaring levels of poverty, drug addiction and homelessness, all point to a faltering civilization. While many ag

Many are born; few live. Men without personality are innumerable and vegetate molded by their environment, like melted wax. Jos Ingenieros, The Mediocre Man In the early-20th century, the Argentinian philosopher, physician, and essayist Jos Ingenieros

the fairy tale is the great mother of thenovel, andhas even more universal validity than the most-avidly read novel of your time. And you know that what has been on everyones lips for millennia, though repeated endlessly, still comes nearest to the u

And then comes the knowing that in me there is space for a second, large, and timeless life. Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilkes Book of Hours: Love Poems to God According to Carl Jung the second half of life cannot be lived in the same manner as the first. Wh

This is an exceedingly dangerous time and we are confronted with a problem which has never been known in the conscious history of man This is not a light but a darkness; the powers of darkness are coming up Carl Jung, Nietzsches Zarathustra Accordi

We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to becomemore comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent. Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality In the late 19th century, the Germ

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men Throughout Western history, the idea of civilizational collapse has been bound up with visions of apocalyptic catastrophe caused by invasions, plagues, war, o

We have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty? Where is the beauty that we know we cannot really live without? John-Mark Miravalle, Beauty: What it is and Why it Matters In 2009 the late English philo