Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious"
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Unconscious
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The greatest sin is to be unconscious."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious."
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"The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded."
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"Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking."
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"All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught."
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"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
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"Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves."
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"No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes."
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"In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures."
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"The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted."
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"Hitler's unconscious seems to be female."
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"I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious."
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"I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious."
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"The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of."
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"The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of."
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"There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political."
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"If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say."
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"The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain."
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"There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are."
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"I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives."
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"Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself."
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