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

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Conscious, Art Is

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

  David Letterman

  Change, Collective Unconscious, Justice

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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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• You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dream, Years, Collective Unconscious

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• The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Feelings, Causes

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1999). “Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations”, p.48, Stanford University Press

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• All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Research, Psychological

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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Photographer, Best Work

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• Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Roots, Secret Love

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• Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Individuality

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

  Edward Bond

  Animal, Literature, Conscious

  Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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• Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Apology, Atheism, Faults

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• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Mind, Known

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• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Tasks, Belief

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

  Carl Jung

  Perception, Intuition, Memories Dreams Reflections

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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 unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

  Carl Jung

  Space, Doe, Consciousness

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

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• The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Mind, Blind

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Mind, Important, Action

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