Carl Jung Quotes

You only know what you know.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

The blind see what they want to see.

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.