The Unconscious Quotes

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.

I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

We are not just these three-dimensional bodies walking around. Our unconscious communicates and other people pick it up and they come to our rescue, or a spirit comes to our rescue.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.