Personality (n.) is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.
Personality (n.) is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being.
Personality (n.) is derived secondarily: man's consciousness of himself as a person comes first from quasi-personal archetypes — what myth calls his descent from gods and heroes.
Personality (n.) need not lie only in what is permanent: change, becoming and development may be higher values than mere defiance of change.
Personality (n.) as a unity is not a reality at all but a desideratum.
Personality (n.) is menaced by alien powers whichever you believe in — demons of the air or an unconscious factor playing diabolical tricks.
Personality (n.) does not grow by stuffing in as much as possible from outside; the more we believe that, the greater our inner poverty.
Personality (n.) does not require consciousness — it may lie dormant or dream; the unconscious behaves like a personality that has never woken up.
Personality (n.) does not develop unless the shadow is accepted — like a plant pushing up out of the earth.
Personality (n.) can never be fully described, because its most decisive qualities are often the ones only other people can see.
Personality (n.) is annulled once the God-image is destroyed — the corollary Christianity's answer to Job left unmentioned.
Personality (n.) is the character of everything autonomous in the psyche: impersonality is a category of consciousness — nothing autonomous is neutral, from the voices of the insane to mystics' visions.
Personality (n.) cannot be expected of a child, for definiteness, wholeness and ripeness would rob it of childhood — it would be a premature pseudo-adult; no one can train personality unless he has it himself.
Personality (n.) is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being — an act of high courage flung in the face of life.
Personality (n.) is, in its development, at once a charisma and a curse: its first fruit is segregation from the herd, which means isolation — there is no more comforting word for it.
Personality (n.) as an ideal is ineradicable: the Bolsheviks embalmed Lenin and made a saviour of Marx, and Protestant theology, having reduced Christ's divinity to vanishing point, took refuge in the personality of Jesus.
Personality (n.) born in oneself heals like a river, wasted in sluggish side-streams and marshes, finding its way back to its proper bed — or a stone lifted off a germinating seed.
Personality (n.) teaches more than thick tomes of wisdom: patients instinctively copy how the analyst handles life, look into his soul for confirmation of his formulas, and sooner or later one calls his bluff.
Personality (n.) is what insight finally sees behind the burden once blamed on the whole family; one cannot live from anything except what one is.