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To have soul is the whole adventure of life, for soul is a life-giving daemon who plays his elfin game above and below human existence. CW 9 - par 56

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The nature of psyche reaches into obscurities far beyond the scope of our understanding. It contains as many riddles as the universe with its galactic systems, before whose majestic configurations only a mind lacking in imagination can fail to admit its own insufficiency. CW 8 - par 815

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The individual distinguishes himself himself by his deeds, the many by their renunciation of power. CW 7 - Par 238

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Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. Even the best attempts at explanation are only more or less successful translations into another metaphorical language. (Indeed, language itself is only an image.) The most we can do is to dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. And whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, we do it to our own souls as well, with corresponding results for our own well-being. The archetype--let us never forget--is a psychic organ present in all of us. CW 9 - par 271

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Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. In this latter case, unfortunately, there is no scientific test that would prove the discrepancy between perception and reality. Although the possibility of gross deception is infinitely greater here than in our perception of the physical world, we still go on naively projecting our own psychology into our fellow human beings. In this way everyone creates for himself a series of more or less imaginary relationships based essentially on projection. CW 8 - par 507

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The more highly developed men of our time do not want to be guided by a creed or a dogma; they want to understand. So it's not surprising if they throw aside everything they do not understand.; and religious symbols, being the least intelligible of all, are generally the first to go overboard. The sacrifice of the intellect demanded by positive belief is a violation against which the conscience of the more highly developed individual rebels. CW 4 - par 434

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No one develops his personality because somebody tells him that it would be useful or advisable to do so. Nature has never yet been taken in by well-meaning advice. The only thing that moves nature is causal necessity, and that goes for human nature too. Without necessity nothing budges, the human personality least of all. It is tremendously conservative, not to say torpid. Only acute necessity is able to rouse it. The developing personality obeys no caprice, no command, no insight, only brute necessity; it needs the motivating force of inner or outer fatalities. Any other development would be no better than individualism. That is why the cry of "individualism" is a cheap insult when slung at the natural development of personality. CW 17 - par 293