We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide." in the context of "J.B. Priestley, Times Literary Supplement, London (August 6, 1954)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.