The Unconscious Quotes

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.