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Carl Gustav Jung

Quote of Carl Gustav Jung - Everything that irritates us about others...


Biography - Carl Gustav Jung:

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

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


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Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Internet Archive - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (en) 



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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Tout ce qui nous irrite chez l'autre peut nous aider à mieux nous comprendre.

German
Alles was uns an anderen stört, kann uns helfen, uns selbst besser zu verstehen.




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See also...



When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

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

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

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.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your faults.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.




Quotes for: to understand


Quotes

Quotes for: to understand


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





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





Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.





It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.





In youth we learn; in age we understand.





Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.











Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.





Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.





Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.





If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.











Quotes

Quotes for: help


It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.





Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.





Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.





People must help one another it is nature's law.





Help yourself and heaven will help you.





What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.











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Carl Gustav Jung also said...


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.





Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.












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