100+ Conscious And Unconscious Quotes

source: Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.106, Syracuse University Press

topic: Literature, Consciousness, Psychologist, Conscious And Unconscious

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Giving Up, Preparation, Acting, Conscious And Unconscious

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

- Carl Jung

topic: Self, Psychology, Ego, Individuation, Conscious And Unconscious

To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Unconscious Thoughts, Balance, Flow, Conscious And Unconscious

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

- Sigmund Freud

source: Sigmund Freud (2014). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.14, Courier Corporation

topic: Ego, Doubt, Principles, Conscious And Unconscious

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

- Arnold Newman

topic: Reflection, Two, Shooting, Conscious And Unconscious

Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes before. It is a quest to find ourselves: who and what we really are. To do this we must first cease to pretend to be what we are not. We must cast away our Persona or mask. We must be prepared to confront the Shadow, that which we are and rather were not. Only then can we unify our conscious and unconscious minds and so give birth to the hidden Sun - the Self.

- Vivianne Crowley

topic: Life, Self, Giving, Unconscious Mind, Conscious And Unconscious

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

- David Whyte

source: Source: spiritualityhealth.com

topic: Loss, Dishonesty, Conscious, Conscious And Unconscious

We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.

- Judith Viorst

topic: Letting Go, Dream, Moving, Conscious And Unconscious, Younger Self

Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony.

- Morris Berman

topic: Eye, Self, Hands, Individuation, Conscious And Unconscious

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

- Leonard Mlodinow

source: Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.270, Harmony

topic: Events, Belief, Conscious, Whirlpools, Conscious And Unconscious

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Thinking, Talent, Moments, Clear Thinking, Conscious And Unconscious

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

- Carl Jung

topic: Spring, Fullness Of Life, Views, Meaninglessness, Conscious And Unconscious

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

- Henry Moore

source: Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.197, Univ of California Press

topic: Art, Order, Play, Surrealist, Conscious And Unconscious

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 52, 1988.

topic: Plot, Literature, Conscious, Conscious And Unconscious

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

- Teresa de Lauretis

topic: Feminist, Childhood, Identity, Conscious And Unconscious

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

- Janeane Garofalo

topic: Hate, Ignorance, Wings, Right Wing, Conscious And Unconscious

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

topic: Running, Dark, Differences, Individuation, Conscious And Unconscious

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

- Rollo May

topic: Attitude, Acceptance, Men, Inhumanity, Inhumanity To Man

Every day-care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.

- James L Hymes

topic: School, Choices, Care, Conscious And Unconscious, Bad Education

Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.

- John Templeton

topic: Spiritual, Powerful, Ideas, Spiritual Power, Conscious And Unconscious

InspiringQuotes

Conscious And Unconscious Quotes:

Authors starting with Letter

Topics starting with Letter