boring more than mad …
show me a sane person and
I’ll cure him for you
In his book, Jung: Man and Myth (Macmillan Pub Co, 1981), Vincent Brome writes:
“It was the explosive person who said one day to his wife, ‘If I get another perfectly normal adult malingering as a sick patient I’ll have him certified!’ And to George Beckwith, his American friend, ‘I’m sometimes driven to the conclusion that boring people need treatment more urgently than mad people.’ Witty on some occasions, he commented to one of his assistants, ‘Show me a sane person and I’ll cure him for you.’”
I am reminded of something Mr. Churchill said along the lines of “There are two types of people in this world. Those who are billed to death. And those who are bored to death.
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