Talk:daimon
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- The External represenation of a person's soul. Usually projected in an animal form. ? Andrew massyn 06:12, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Rewritten and added quotes. --Ptcamn 00:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
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editI pulled the below quotes from daimonic, that belong here really. THey may need a little cleanup but seem like good ones. Goldenrowley 19:51, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- 1956. Carl Jung, C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation (New York: Pantheon, 1956), p. 357.</ref>
- The daimon throws us down, makes us traitors to our ideals and cherished convictions — traitors to the selves we thought we were.
- 1968 Carl Jung, Aion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968), p. 27.
- The Greek words daimon and daimonion express a determining power which comes upon man from outside, like providence or fate, though the ethical decision is left to man.
- Yeats
- Daimon ... that "other Will"
- Stefan Zweig
- He becomes the daimon's master instead of the daimon's thrall.
- C.G. Jung, Man and his Symbols, →ISBN, p. 161
- "Throughout the ages men have been intuitively aware of the existence of such an inner center. The Greeks called it man's inner daimon."