To be a socially adapted being has no charms for one to whom to be so is mere child's play. Always to do what is right becomes a bore for the man who knows how, whereas the eternal bungler cherishes the secret longing to be right for once in some distant future.
 Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933). copy citation

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Author Carl Jung
Source Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Topic future longing
Date 1933
Language English
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Note Translated by W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes
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