Unconscious Quotes - Page 33

• Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Night, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence (2012). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.202, Courier Corporation

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• The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Real, Conscious

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.472, Courier Dover Publications

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• I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Children, Mean, Sacrifice

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• A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Excellence, Degrees

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• A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Taste, Conscious, Good Taste

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• Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Educational, Cutting, Excellence

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• Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Imperfection, Looks, May

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• The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

  Philip K. Dick

  Selective

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Thinking, Bridges, Mind

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• The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.

  Terri E Apter

  Mother, Father, Moving

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• Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.

  Connie Zweig

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.314, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.

  Stacy Allison

  Sports, Climbing, Who I Am

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• A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Years, Two

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• The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Education, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Real, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.122

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• The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Men, Age

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• The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

  Anais Nin

  Ifs, Disregarded, Destructive

  "The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach
  my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.

  Clara Barton

  Mother, Prayer, Father

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• We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.

  Lynn Margulis

  Ideas, Environmental, Body

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• Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

  Troy Vincent

  Life, Mother, Brother

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• America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rights, Collective Unconscious, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Dream, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Parent, Fascination

  "Sarah Polley" by Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

  Oliver Sacks

  Creativity, Math, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Collective Unconscious, Brain, Mind

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