Understanding Quotes by Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears…

— Carl Jung

... we are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our…

— Carl Jung

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern,…

— Carl Jung

Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no…

— Carl Jung

At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous…

— Carl Jung

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization,…

— Carl Jung

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a…

— Carl Jung

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has…

— Carl Jung

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.…

— Carl Jung

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,…

— Carl Jung