Masters of rational thinking, they [Pauli, Wittgenstein and Gödel] went to its limits and thus shattered the foundations of the classical worldview. They all came to the same conclusion: it is impossible to exclude the irrational from the worldview, in actual fact it forms a necessary point of reference in every system. Bohr, too, belonged to the group who asserted that the logically clear and precise does not lead to a true picture of reality. The truth requires a view which is directed towards the whole, which limits clarity. Truth dwells in the deeps, said Bohr. Reality is something ‘over and above’, said Wittgenstein. Pauli expressed it in the words: ‘Every truth also contains something partly unknown, only suspected and therefore hidden.’
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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