"There is no one who develops his personality because someone has told him that it is useful or advisable to do so. Nature has never been so deeply impressed by well-intentioned suggestions. Only causally acting compulsion moves nature, including humans. (...) In this way, the development of the personality does not obey any wish, command, or insight, but only disaster; it cannot do without the motivating compulsion of internal and external destinies.
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Author
Carl Gustav JungAll Translations
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There is no one who develops his personality because someone has told him that it is useful or advisable to do so. Nature has never been so deeply impressed by well-intentioned suggestions. Only causally acting compulsion moves nature, including humans. (...) In this way, the development of the personality does not obey any wish, command, or insight, but only disaster; it cannot do without the motivating compulsion of internal and external destinies.
""Nincs olyan, aki azért fejlesztené a személyiségét, mert valaki azt mondta neki, hogy hasznos vagy tanácsos így tennie. A természetre még sohasem tettek mély benyomást a jó szándékú javaslatok. Csak kauzálisan ható kényszer mozdítja meg a természetet, az emberit is. (...) Így a személyiség fejlődése sem engedelmeskedik holmi óhajnak, parancsnak, avagy belátásnak, hanem csakis a vésznek; nem nélkülözheti a belső és külső sorsok motiváló kényszerét."