Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does n…

Carl Jung
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious

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