9 Carl Jung quotes
In high school I read part of Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist who emphasized the importance of spirituality, balance, harmony and the unconscious mind. I recently came across the first of these quotes and found it rather true so looked up the others to share.
- “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
- “If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.”
- “The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”
- “You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.”
- “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
- “The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and…each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
- “Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.”
- “The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.”
- “To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
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