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Carl Gustav Jung

Quote of Carl Gustav Jung - We should not pretend to understand...


Biography - Carl Gustav Jung:

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Born: 1875 - Died: 1961
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Switzerland
Switzerland

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.



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They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.




Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.











Quotes for: to understand


Quotes

Quotes for: to understand


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





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





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.





Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.











Quotes for: judgement


Quotes

Quotes for: judgement


Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.





Haste in judgement is to look for guilt.





A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.





It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.





Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.











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Carl Gustav Jung also said...


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





Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





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.





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.





Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.












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