„This is our problem as modern ‘enlightened’ individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence“

— Joseph Campbell

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„Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.“
— Joseph Campbell
„If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„I sing for God, our Devil, our Lord, Aiwaz.“
— Aleister Crowley
„The worship of the rational mind makes you prone to totalitarian ideology. The Catholic Church always warned against this. The warning was that the rational mind always falls in love with its own creations. The intellect is raised to the status of highest god. The highest ideal that a person holds – consciously or unconsciously – that's their god. It functions precisely in that manner. It exists forever, it exists in all people, it takes them over and exists in their behavior. That's a god. We have to think about that idea functionally.“
— Jordan Peterson
„The problem that confronts most of us is whether the individual is merely the instrument of society or the end of society. Are you and I as individuals to be used, directed, educated, controlled, shaped to a certain pattern by society and government; or does society, the State, exist for the individual? Is the individual the end of society; or is he merely a puppet to be taught, exploited, butchered as an instrument of war? That is the problem that is confronting most of us. That is the problem of the world; whether the individual is a mere instrument of society, a plaything of influences to be moulded; or whether society exists for the individual.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti