“When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.”

—  C.G. Jung

Nietzsche's Zarathustra (1988), p. 30

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update May 26, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is …" by C.G. Jung?
C.G. Jung photo
C.G. Jung257
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

Related quotes

Jan Neruda photo

“At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.”

Jan Neruda (1834–1891) Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist and writer

Oscar Wilde photo

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Saki photo

“To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.”

Saki book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"Fur"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

Prem Rawat photo

“Today I will speak about love. What is love? How can one get love? Why should one get it? There are two kinds of love. One is the worldly connection. The other is attained through Knowledge. In this human body exists the love we have to discover. You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Ram Lila Grounds, Delhi, India, October 29, 1966 (translated from Hindi) - Published in Divine Light (UK) April 1, 1973, Volume 2, Issue 7
1960s

Northrop Frye photo

“If I had been on the hills of Bethlehem in the year one, I do not think I should have heard angels singing because I do not hear them now, & there is no reason to suppose that they have stopped.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 74

Sarah Dessen photo

“I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it -- it wan't Will's. It was mine.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Paulo Coelho photo

“There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe…. The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

The Old King, p. 22.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)

Fausto Cercignani photo

“When one must fight, one had better do it without hesitation, according to his own nature.”

Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet

Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni

Related topics