Top 1200 Conscious And Unconscious Quotes & Sayings

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

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

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

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 in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

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

I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of it is not, and it has to be a dance between the conscious and the unconscious. I bring my best instincts to my work. For instance - and I come by this naturally, or I think I do - I am a very good judge of character.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of "conscious capitalism," which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it "stakeholder capitalism."

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

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 purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit.

The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unconscious mind may be a little more distorted and violent than I am aware of.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

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

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

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

People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious; we are not conscious. The moment you become conscious, all unconscious actions disappear from your life. Your life starts moving in a new dimension. Your each act comes out of inner clarity; your each response is virtuous, is virtue. To live unconsciously is to live in sin; to live consciously is to be virtuous, is to be religious. And to live in total awareness is to be a buddha, is to be a christ.

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

You have to learn to trust - and listen to - your unconscious mind. If you pose the question to your unconscious "is this person a friend or a foe" - safe or a threat - your unconscious mind is hard-wired to assess that brilliantly for you. It's just that we're not very good at paying attention to what our unconscious minds are telling us.

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.

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

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

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

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.