To live in its own world is a fundamental phenomenon of life . . . This primal, integrative process of life as an existence in and along with its own world is exemplified in human life too, but human beings take the process even further through conscious discrimination and an active influence on their own world and then through their generalised knowledge of it. By such means life transcends itself and moves on into other possible worlds and beyond the concept of World itself.
Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology, trans. J. Hoenig and Marian W. Hamilton, Vol. 1, Introduction § Introduction, § 2. Some basic concepts, (d) Inner and outer world
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