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Adaptation (n.) laid ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠aside without a new one to replace it means infallible regression along the old path — into a world that has meanwhile changed.

Adaptation (n.) leaves ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the man of today with a heart made into a den of murderers, untroubled by his group's worst infamy so long as the majority believe in its exalted morality.

Adaptation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never achieved once and for all: the more persistent a man's mental habits, the less permanent his actual adaptation.

Adaptation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a permanent state reached once and kept, but a continually advancing process requiring constant observation of change within and without.

Adaptation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not everyone's task: if a man's real task is not to be adapted, help him by all means to stay unadapted — a world of the fully adapted would bore us beyond endurance.

Adaptation (n.) runs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠two ways psychologically: to outer conditions, including our own judgments of things, and to inner conditions forced on us by the unconscious; neurosis is a disturbance of either.