Don't identify with reason. No one is wholly rational.
Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'
Don't identify with reason. No one is wholly rational.
Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'
What it means
Reason is one of your best tools, but it is not the whole of you. Feelings, instincts and images also drive what you do. Pretending otherwise just means they work in the dark.
The source
"Don't identify with reason. No one is wholly rational." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
"One must not identify oneself with reason, because man is not and cannot be wholly rational, nor will he ever become so."H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'. Text read at archive.org.
Who said it
Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.
Questions
- What does "Don't identify with reason. No one is wholly rational." mean?
- Reason is one of your best tools, but it is not the whole of you. Feelings, instincts and images also drive what you do. Pretending otherwise just means they work in the dark.
- Who said "Don't identify with reason. No one is wholly rational."?
- Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'.
- What is the original wording?
- One must not identify oneself with reason, because man is not and cannot be wholly rational, nor will he ever become so (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
- Is "Don't identify with reason. No one is wholly rational." on a shirt?
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Cite this line
"Don't identify with reason. No one is wholly rational." (Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious', trans. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/dont-identify-with-reason-no-one-is-wholly
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