I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up.” — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I don't think unfriending your old crush on Facebook will do much other than remove him from your Facebook feed. Don't beat… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
'The Master and Margarita' is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
