Carl Jung on Error.
Thinking protects against the way of error, and therefore it leads to petrification. Carl Jung and Elijah, Liber Novus, Page 248.
There, that’s the error, one must not seek happiness. The happiness that one seeks is a usurped one. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung; Modern Man in Search of a Soul If you avoid error you do not live. Carl Jung, Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking, p. 98.
Without error and sin there is no experience of grace, that is, no union of God and man. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 267-268.
One should be willing to make mistakes cheerfully. The most perfect analysis cannot prevent error. Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 13
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth.
I am well aware that this work, far from being complete, is a mere sketch showing how certain
Christian ideas look when observed from the standpoint of psychological experience.
Since my main concern was to point out the parallelism or the difference between the empirical findings and our traditional views, a consideration of the disparities due to time and language proved unavoidable.
This was particularly so in the case of the fish symbol. Inevitably, we move here on uncertain ground and must now and then have recourse to a speculative hypothesis or tentatively- reconstruct a context.
Naturally every investigator must document his findings as fully as possible, but he should also venture an occasional hypothesis even at the risk of making a mistake.
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. ~Carl Jung, CW 9ii, Para 429
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