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• He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Arrogance, Taft, Littles

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• No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

  Gregory Bateson

  Levels, Matter, Conscious

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

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• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Mean, Blessing

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Creativity, Iphone, Ipods

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, November 21, 2014.

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• This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Karma, Men, Law

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Unconscious Thoughts, Balance, Flow

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• Most wonderful things are unconscious.

  Agnes Denes

  Wonderful, Wonderful Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

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

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Moments, Unhappiness, States

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.44, New World Library

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• The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Healthy, Absence

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.693, GENERAL PRESS

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• People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.

  George Carlin

  Sleep, People, Gone

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.

  Wallace Stevens

  Play, Imagination, Essentials

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.259, Vintage

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• One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Want, Tests, Innocence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Originality, Plagiarism

  Quoted in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant (1927)

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Reality

  "The new age philosophy of mind over… mind". Interview at Omega Institute, www.newyorktimesbestsellerlist.org. Fall 2003.

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• We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

  Norman Mailer

  Art, Civilization, Effort

  "Cannibals and Christians". Book by Norman Mailer, 1966.

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• An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Reality, Degrees

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• Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.

  Rollo May

  Dedication, Missing, Answers

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• Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

  Rollo May

  Technique, Tools, Consciousness

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• The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Mind, Conscious, Importance

  Gustave Le Bon (2013). “The Crowd”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

  Milton H. Erickson

  Ego, Conscious

  Milton H. Erickson (1980). “The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion”, Halsted Press

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

  Herbert Read

  Space, Vision, Spontaneity

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• Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?

  Walter J. Phillips

  Spiritual, Artist, Vanity

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• 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.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Creative, Decision

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• Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Men, Whales

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.19, Open Road Media

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