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Quotes About Unconsciousness

Mental illness is primarily an unconscious escape from this design, a form of passive resistance.
~ John Zerzan
I slept a lot. Which I liked, because being unconscious meant not remembering.
~ Barbara Haworth-Attard
It was not the man's brain that was speaking it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words but it was not speech in true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness like the quacking of a duck.
~ George Orwell
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
~ George Orwell
And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he would betray him instantly to the Thought Police. So would anybody else for that matter: but Syme more than most. Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness.
~ George Orwell
Cómo vas a tener un eslogan como el de la libertad es la esclavitud cuando el concepto de libertad no exista? Todo el clima del pensamiento será distinto. En realidad, no habrá pensamiento en el sentido en que ahora lo entendemos. La ortodoxia significa no pensar, no necesitar el pensamiento. Nuestra ortodoxia es la inconsciencia.
~ George Orwell
Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.' One
~ George Orwell
That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.
~ George Orwell
That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.
~ George Orwell
How could you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
~ George Orwell
It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck. Syme
~ George Orwell
Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness
~ George Orwell
La ortodoxia equivale a no pensar, a no tener la necesidad de pensar. La ortodoxia es la inconsciencia (cap 5, primera parte - 1984)
~ George Orwell
Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness.
~ George Orwell
I am jealous of my sleeping lover and cover his induced unconsciousness.
~ Sarah Kane
While in the beginning the ego germ lay in the embrace of the hermaphroditic uroboros, at the end the self proves to be the golden core of a sublimated uroboros, combining in itself masculine and feminine, conscious and unconscious elements, a unity in which the ego does not perish but experiences itself, in the self, as the uniting symbol.
~ Erich Neumann
the conscious state is the late and uncommon phenomenon, and its complete attainment is far more of a rarity than modern man so flatteringly pretends, while the unconscious state is the original, basic, psychic situation
~ Erich Neumann
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.
~ Andrew Stanton
Im interested in those things that hover in our unconsciousnesses - class, gender, identity - until we have to think about them for whatever reason. So normal is whatevers normal for you, until its not.
~ Grayson Perry
The beginning of a book holds more apprehensions for the novelist than the ending. After living with a book for a year or two, he has come to terms with his unconsciousness — the end will be imposed. But if a book is started in the wrong way, it may never be finished.
~ Graham Greene
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.
~ Graham Hancock
Un somn cosmic care îl ap?ra de moarte, îl situa în afara oric?rei scurgeri de timp... O uitare puternica printr-o retragere a timpului, undeva în golul spa?iului... Un neant magic fara limite. O stare de inconstienta intretaiata de treziri comatoas?, nicioadata destul de lungi ca spiritul sa se poat? elibera de somnolenta limburilor.
~ Serge Brussolo
The people with whom we live are often the ones whose presence arouses the least reaction from us. Although we are intimately accustomed to their expressions, we tend to be less aware of them. This unconsciousness often accounts for the ease of coexistence, but it has its shadow in a lack of appreciation. The same thing happens with our relationships with art materials.
~ Shaun McNiff
The people with whome we live are often the ones whose presence arouses the least reaction from us. Although we are intimately accustomed to their expressions, we tend to be less aware of them. This unconsciousness often accounts for the ease of coexistence, but it has its shadow in a lack of appreciation. The same thing happens with our relationships with art materials.
~ Shaun McNiff