#unconscious

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#after #instruments #mark #men #nothing

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#enormous #except #gentle #haitian #haitian people

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#action #attempt #consciously #every #experiences

But only part of him was listening. Another part, even if it hadn't read Chomsky or Jung or Sheldrake—who had time for dead guys anyway?— at least had a basic understanding of what those guys had gone on about. Quantum nonlocality, quantum consciousness—Desjardins had seen too many cases of mass coincidence to dismiss the idea that nine billion human minds could be imperceptibly interconnected somehow. He’d never really thought about it much, but on some level he’d believed in the Collective Unconscious for years. He just hadn’t realized that the fucking thing had a death wish. ↗

— Peter Watts

#hundredth-monkey #polygenesis #death

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#dreams #unconscious #dreams

It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it goes back down and tends to develop anti-human qualities. What should have been a human impulse becomes a tiger-like impulse. For instance, a man has a feeling impulse to say something positive to someone and he blocks it off through some inhibition. He might then dream that he had a spontaneous feeling impulse on the level of a child and his conscious purpose had smashed it. The human is still there, but as a hurt child. Should he do that habitually for five years, he would no longer dream of a child who had been hurt but of a zoo full of raging wild animals in a cage. An impulse which is driven back loads up with energy and becomes inhuman. This fact, according to Dr. Jung, demonstrates the independent existence of unconscious. ↗

— Marie-Louise von Franz

#impulse #jung #unconscious-depth-psychology #dreams

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#intuitition #judgement #unconscious #experience

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#free-will #unconscious #freedom

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consciousness #corruption #dangerous #impact #mass-media