Unconscious Quotes - Page 16

• Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Dirty, Sea

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• When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Book, Age

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

  Russell Banks

  Wonderful, Smarter

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• Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

  Jessa Gamble

  Disability, Ultimate

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• The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

  Julian Jaynes

  Mind, Way, Divine

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.323, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Men, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

  Phoebe Cates

  Acting, Cameras, Conscious

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• You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole
  society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hands, People, Sadism

  Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ginsberg, Michael Schumacher (2002). “Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

  Marc Maron

  Collective Unconscious, Consciousness, Internet

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• The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

  Fredric Wertham

  Children, Stories, May

  Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Self Esteem, Swim

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press

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• Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Dream, Prayer, Imagination

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• A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won’t lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I can’t allow myself to be ordinary!

  Zoro

  Eye, Men, Ordinary

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• Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

  Sophia Loren

  Knowing, Mature, Sophisticated

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• There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

  Marianne Moore

  Poetry, Amount

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.38, Penguin

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• But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

  Helen Garner

  Husband, Thinking, Looks

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• The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pride, Ego, Flesh

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

  Abraham Maslow

  World, Etc, Process

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• The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Sea, Age, Culture

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• Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, People, Interesting

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4523, Delphi Classics

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• It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime.

  George Orwell

  Expression, Giving, Anxiety

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Vegetarianism, Missing

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• Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.

  Simon Barnes

  Couple, Believe, Years

  Simon Barnes (2008). “How to be Wild”, p.39, Short Books

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• He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Girl, Cutting, Garden

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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