Unconscious Quotations

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

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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.

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

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

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious.

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

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

As I see it, Pune One was a catharsis phase: a cleansing of our collective unconscious, helped along by the groups and therapies. It was as if Osho was creating a foundation to what would follow. Work came more and more into focus as the Commune, the sangha, grew and flowered.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

The unconscious is structured like a language.

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

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

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

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

The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.

Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever.

The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it.

She can't say no if she's unconscious.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

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

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

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.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.