Recently, I came across an interesting quote, which was written almost 50 years ago, but hasn't lost its power.
"Modern" man remains unwilling to apply to self-understanding the very scientific attitudes and principles which have won him awesome material and technical ascendancy. This is the twentieth-century paradox - the man is more and more the master of things, but dangerously obsolete in his techniques for understanding and mastering himself.
R. B. Cattell & I. H. Scheier (1961) (NS)
