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Conscious Quotes by Carl Jung
- The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of…
- In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the…
- Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
- Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence…
- The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.
- How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright…
- The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making…
- Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.
- The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
- Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
- Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral…
- An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to…
- Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness.…
- 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…
- The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious…
- A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when…
- Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of…
- We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous…
- Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
- Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it…
- The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To…
- Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the…
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- I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. — Mikhail Bakunin
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
- I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday,… — Kristen Bell
- Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know… — Saul Bellow
- Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. — Theodor Adorno
- I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea… — Sara Blakely
- Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point… — Cate Blanchett
- Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its… — H. P. Blavatsky
- It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that… — H. P. Blavatsky
- I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers… — Alain de Botton
- I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies… — Anthony Bourdain
- Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You… — Ray Bradbury