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People speak of belief when they have lost knowledge. Belief and disbelief in God are mere surrogates. The naive primitive doesn't believe, he knows, because the inner experience rightly means as much to him as the outer. He still has no theology and hasn't yet let himself be befuddled by booby trap concepts. He adjusts his life of necessity to outer and inner facts...whereas we live in only one-half and merely believe in the other or not at all. We have blotted it out with so-called spiritual development which means that we live by self-fabricated electric light and to heighten the comedy believe or don't believe in the sun.

Carl Jung

Letters II, p.5

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