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[17] "The secret of cultural development is the mobility and disposability of psychic energy. Directed thinking, as we know it today, is a more or less modern acquisition which earlier ages lacked."

[17] "the ancients, with a few illustrious exceptions, entirely lacked the capacity to concentrate their interest on the transformations of inanimate matter and to reproduce the natural process artificially, by which means alone they could have gained control of the forces of nature."

[14] "His seeking and his finding, his heart’s cry, are meant for the herd and must be heeded by them."

[14] "Hence the craving of a Schopenhauer or a Nietzsche for recognition and understanding, and the despair and bitterness of their loneliness. One might expect, perhaps, that a man of genius would luxuriate in the greatness of his own thoughts and renounce the cheap approbation of the rabble he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct."

[14] " “Speech is generated by the intellect and in turn generates intellect.” The most abstract system of philosophy is, in its method and purpose, nothing more than an extremely ingenious combination of natural sounds."

Two kinds of Thinking: Direct Thinking (words, objective, communicative, productively adapted to reality ), Fantasy-Dream Thinking.(image, subjective, unproductively adapted to reality)

"What aroused a feeling of horror in the Greeks still remains true, but it is true for us only if we give up the vain illusion that we are different, i.e., morally better, than the ancients. We have merely succeeded in forgetting that an indissoluble link binds us to the men of antiquity."

A series of unfortunate events have led me to this book, BUT GOD KNOWS HOW MUCH I'M ENJOYING IT, AND LEARNING FROM IT.
It's amazing how manyfolded Jung's ideas are. The depth and the wealth of his knowledge - it's just stunning.