Unconscious Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Alanis Morissette

  Letting Go, Identity, Faces

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• Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Army, Police, Enemy

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.158, Penguin

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• The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.

  Virginia Henderson

  Love, Confidence, Mother

  "A Virginia Henderson Reader: Excellence in Nursing".

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• Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mind, Degrees, Different

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Kids, Stories, Littles

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• I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

  Arthur Fry

  Brain, Mind, Patterns

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• The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Reality, People, Deceit

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• Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Feminist, Childhood, Identity

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• Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Women, People, Choices

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• In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.

  Carl Jung

  Memories, Reality, People

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Fear, Understanding, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)

  Peter Sellers

  Relaxation, Relax, Said

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• The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

  John Ralston Saul

  Destiny, Political, Intellectual

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• Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

  Carl Jung

  Finding Yourself, Becoming, Know Yourself

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• The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Taken, Long

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.45, Penguin

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• Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.

  David Ogilvy

  Art, Business, Drinking

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• But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Fall, Sacrifice, Genius

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• Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of reality, and of those elements in reality that support or threaten meaningful existence.

  James Luther Adams

  Meaningful, Reality, Support

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• Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

  Robert Wright

  Sex, Understanding, Trying

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage

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• One of the significant facts about the moment of birth is that it is an unconscious moment. No one ever knows when he is being born that the event is actually taking place, and sometimes we don't find out about it until quite a long time afterward. Sometimes, we never do really find out that we have been born. So frequently, we don't know why we were born; we don't know where we came from; we don't know what the purpose of life is; nor do we understand the possibilities of our godly destiny.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Godly, Destiny

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• All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Fall, Inspire, Humanity

  To-Day Interview, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 200, 1894.

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• No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion

  Christopher Dawson

  War, Passion, Past

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

  Edward Sapir

  Art, Work, Generations

  Edward Sapir (2014). “Language”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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• Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

  Edward Sapir

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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