Unconscious Quotes - Page 20

• Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

  David Mamet

  Art, Connections, Spontaneous

  David Mamet (2010). “Theatre”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Space, Mind

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• The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

  Alison Bechdel

  Creativity, Wish, Looks

  Alison Bechdel (2012). “Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Water, Symbols

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Development, Derivatives, Medieval

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Facts, Mental Health

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• Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Perception, Intuition

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• The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Unconscious Thoughts, Conscious And Unconscious, Mortals

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.576, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

  Carl Jung

  Shadow Work, Intention, Individual

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• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• 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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