# Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 10  ## Metadata - Author: [[C. G. Jung]] - Full Title: Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 10 - Category: #books ## Highlights - Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. - Note: [490] - Religion means dependence on and submission to the irrational facts of experience. These do not refer directly to social and physical conditions; they concern far more the individual’s psychic attitude. - A creed gives expression to a definite collective belief, whereas the word religion expresses a subjective relationship to certain metaphysical, extramundane factors. - Note: [507] Difference between “religion” vs “creed” - Religion, as the careful observation and taking account of certain invisible and uncontrollable factors, is an instinctive attitude peculiar to man, and its manifestations can be followed all through human history - Note: [512] - [T]he suggestive parade of State power engenders a collective feeling of security which, unlike religious demonstrations, gives the individual no protection against his inner demonism. - Note: [512] Difference between State as religion and genuine religion - Consciousness is a precondition of being. - Note: [528] - …in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. - Note: [535] - Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. - Note: [540] - The Christian symbol is a living thing that carries in itself the seeds of further development. - Note: [542] - You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return. - Note: [544] - Human knowledge consists essentially in the constant adaptation of the primordial patterns of ideas that were given us a priori. - Note: [548] - Marxist education… seeks, like God himself, to remake man, but in the image of the State. - Note: [549] - People think you have only to “tell” a person that he “ought” to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter. - Note: [555] - It is not that present-day man is capable of greater evil than the man of antiquity or the primitive. He merely has incomparably more effective means with which to realize his propensity to evil. - Note: [574] - A human relationship is… based on… imperfection, on what is weak, helpless and in need of support—the very ground and motive for dependence. - Tags: [[favorite]] - Note: [579]