Carl Jung Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Mean, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Nature, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

• It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Evil, Wickedness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

• The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Real, Night

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.110, Dell

• A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Evil

• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Evil, Darkness, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

• It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

  Carl Jung

  Responsibility, Opposites, Evil

  "The Undiscovered Self".

• We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Real, Men

• The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, People, Evil

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Evil, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.210, Psychology Press

• Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

  Carl Jung

  Evil, Doe, Bigs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

• On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Son, Opposites, Evil

• Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Evil, Half

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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