Unconscious Quotes

• A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Choices, Chance

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 21, 2015

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• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Nature, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Conscious, Art Is

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• Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

  Carl Jung

  Humor, Fate, Grandchildren

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• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Dream, Collective Unconscious

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• Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Hate, Tyrants

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• No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Metaphysics, Secure

  Alfred North Whitehead (1933). “Adventure of Ideas”

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• A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Threatening, Certain

  Source: progressive.org

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• The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

  Carl Jung

  Struggle, Years, Collective Unconscious

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Chapter 5, p. 271, 1921.

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• It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

  Sherrie Levine

  Relationship, Art, Work

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• Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Conscious, Arise

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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Thoughtful, Shoes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Action, Obscure, Concrete

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Consciousness, Psychologist

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.106, Syracuse University Press

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• The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

  Italo Calvino

  Ocean, Land, Language

  "Cybernetics and Ghosts" (1969)

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• Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Summarizing, Royal

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

  David Letterman

  Change, Collective Unconscious, Justice

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• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Soul, Truthful

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Mind, Doe

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. Paragraph 51, p. 46, 1952.

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• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Nature, Learning

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• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

  Margaret Walker

  Memories, Collective Unconscious, People

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• From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Creativity, Creative

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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