Unconscious Quotes - Page 14

• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  T. S. Eliot

  Exercise, People, Influence

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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• The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.

  Edward Bernays

  Ideas, Today, Facts

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Believe, Mind, States

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• In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.

  Octavius Winslow

  Government, Law, Long

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• Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

  Sam Keen

  Practice, Anxiety, Fearless

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• Much of traditional magic takes place by the light of the Moon. In the night world we are closer to the unconscious, the hidden, that which has yet to be made manifest, that which is suppressed and as yet realized. Past, present, and future are simultaneously one in the realm of the unconscious. Night is when this world and the other world can meet.

  Vivianne Crowley

  Past, Moon, Night

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• Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

  Barbara Johnson

  Educational, Teaching, Agreement

  Barbara Johnson (1988). “A World of Difference”, p.76, JHU Press

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• Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Symbolism, Important

  "Subliminal Ad-ventures in Erotic Art" by Wilson Bryan Key, Branden Books, (p. 37), 1992.

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• There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Running, Dream, Men

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• To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

  Willard Gaylin

  Men, Behavior, Distortion

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• Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.

  Gerald Zaltman

  Mind, Emotion, Awareness

  Gerald Zaltman (2003). “How Customers Think: Essential Insights Into the Mind of the Market”, p.40, Harvard Business Press

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• There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Relationship, Broken, Imagination

  "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

  Carl Sagan

  Philosophical, Perspective, Humanity

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Humble, Force, Activity

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• The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Reflection, Space

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.78, New World Library

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• Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity.

  Zhuangzi

  Hate, Heart, Loss

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• Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Dream, Memories, Revenge

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Collective Unconscious, Want, Way

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Echoes, Brain, Dolphins

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• The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

  R. D. Laing

  Men, Mind, Normal

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Freedom, Thinking, Voice

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.29, New World Library

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• The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Ego, Consciousness, Edits

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• The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.

  Adyashanti

  Running, Sleep, Simple

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• In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Judging, Choices

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 16, 2014

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• I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Collective Unconscious, Patterns

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