Consciousness Quote by Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Eckhart Tolle

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed…

— Carl Jung

There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws…

— D. H. Lawrence

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life,…

— Carl Jung

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional…

— Seth

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition…

— Thomas Metzinger

Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So…

— Siri Hustvedt

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

— Carl Gustav Carus

The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.

— Kedar Joshi

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

— Diane Ackerman