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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.