Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rest…

Carl Jung
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1953). Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality
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