People should not be outsmarted, even for their own benefit

“I know from experience, however, that this is not for the best—people should not be outsmarted, even when it is for their own benefit.

I do not wish to push anyone off the tracks of their own misguided faith. Perhaps it would be better for that person to reach a total failure than to be saved by false means. I never interfere with people. If someone says, ‘I will commit suicide if…’, then I say: ‘If that is your intention, I have no objection.‘”

— C.G. Jung, from “The Tavistock Lectures” (On the Foundations of Analytical Psychology), 1935

 


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