Unconscious Quotes - Page 32

• To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.

  Greg Bear

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

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• The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.

  Thomas Merton

  Photography, Powerful, Cameras

  Thomas Merton (1975). “The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton”, p.153, New Directions Publishing

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• I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge... Whatever is purely realistic, slice of life, which is average, quotidian, doesn't interest me... I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Strong, Average

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• I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it.

  Sarah Charlesworth

  Thinking, Symbolism, Rearranging

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• Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Photography, Borders, Levels

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• Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Photography, Exaltation, Chance

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• Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Self, Support

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.233, Random House

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• The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.

  Edward Hirsch

  Hands, Imagination, Understanding

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• Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.

  Jeff Olson

  Empowering, Levels, Awareness

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• As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

  Laurie Foos

  Space, Mind, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious space and not ask myself what the novel is about or what my metaphors might mean because then, I think, you're just dead in the water.

  Laurie Foos

  Hard Work, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled out of that unconscious space that is so necessary in the beginning of the drafting process.

  Laurie Foos

  Space, Stories, Trouble

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding you back, so to speak, and I think there is an unconscious body image that may be responsible for the unhealing that's taking place.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Healing, Thinking, Body

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Soul, Secret, Problem

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• The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Men, Analysis

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.154, Psychology Press

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• Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Judging, Personality

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• A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

  Robert Johnson

  Spring, Cutting, Psychological Health

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• Might we never be the helpers of the great hinderer, Satan! Let us ask that the Lord Jesus would so perfectly tune our spirits to the keynote of His exceeding great love, that all our unconscious influence may breathe only of that love, and help all with whom we come in contact to obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Jesus, Great Love, Tunes

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1877). “Royal commandments; or, Morning thoughts for the King's servants”

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• A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.

  Allan Bloom

  Views, People, Profound

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Playing Music, Arithmetic, Music Is

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• The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Dwelling, Insanity

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.5, New World Library

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• Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

  Carl Jung

  Doubt, Woe, Sometimes

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.

  Rajneesh

  Causes, Clinging

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• I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design of things." And that's what I anticipate death will be: a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. I think once around is enough. I don't want to start it all over again.

  Rod Serling

  Suicide, Thinking, Design

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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