understanding Quotes

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

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

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

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

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.