Carl Jung Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

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

• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Stupid, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

• But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Understanding, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.231, Psychology Press

• An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

  Carl Jung

  Learning, Past, Drawing

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

• Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Wisdom, Thinking

  Ernest Jones, Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman (1995). “Salt and the alchemical soul: three essays”, Spring Pubns

• No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Freedom, Understanding, Limits

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

• Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Understood, Happens

• An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Heart, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

• Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Impact, People

• 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

• We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Men, Understanding

  "Face to Face", TV Series (1959– ). "Professor Jung", www.imdb.com. 1959.

• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Men, Light

• The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

  Carl Jung

  Punishment, Understanding, Process Of Change

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

• The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Psychics, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.72, Routledge

• The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Mind, Intellectual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.76, Psychology Press

• Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

  Carl Jung

  Science, Understanding, Kind

• Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

  Carl Jung

  Fear, Understanding, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Land, Astrology, Worry

• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Truth, Intelligent

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

• My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Understanding, Darkness

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

• Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Men, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.111, Dell

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