Quotes About Consciousness

Be glad that you can recognize [your madness], for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

More accurately, the ego is in fact supplemented, not replaced, by the self. For the aim of both Gnosticism and therapy is, once again, the integration of ego consciousness with the unconscious, not the rejection of either one for the other: When, in treating a case of neurosis, we try to supplement the inadequate attitude (or adaptedness)

There is no consciousness without the discrimination of opposites.

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.

Making them conscious and giving form to what is unformed has a specific effect in cases where the conscious attitude offers an overcrowded unconscious no possible means of expressing itself.

For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us.

The things that come to light brutally in insanity remain hidden in the background in neurosis, but they continue to influence consciousness nonetheless. When, therefore, the analysis penetrates the background of conscious phenomena, it discovers the same archetypal figures that activate the deliriums of psychotics.

The rupture between faith and knowledge is a symptom of the split consciousness which is so characteristic of the mental disorder of our day.

The symbol-producing function of our dreams is an attempt to bring our original mind back to consciousness, where it has never been before, and where it has never undergone critical self-reflection. We have been that mind, but we have never known it.

It is always helpful, when we set out to interpret a dream, to ask: What conscious attitude does it compensate

The dream-content is to be taken in all seriousness as something that has actually happened to us; it should be treated as a contributory factor in framing our conscious outlook.

The ground floor stood for the first level of the unconscious. The deeper I went, the more alien and the darker the scene became. In the cave, I discovered remains of a primitive culture, that is, the world of the primitive man within myself—a world which can scarcely be reached or illuminated by consciousness. The primitive psyche of man borders on the life of the animal soul, just as the caves of prehistoric times were usually inhabited by animals before men laid claim to them.

Tik saugok Dieve nuo bet kokios psichologijos, juk per tok? ištvirkim? dar imsi ir pažinsi save!

Por ello, la psicología parte del supuesto de que la mente no puede ni constatar ni demostrar la existencia de aquello que se encuentra fuera de sus fronteras.

A man who is possessed by his shadow is always standing in his own light and falling into his own traps...living below his own level.

Todo pensamiento, todo sentimiento y toda percepción están compuestos por imágenes psíquicas, y el mismo mundo que nos rodea existe únicamente en la medida en que somos capaces de crear una imagen de él. Nuestro estar presos y limitados por la psique ha provocado en nosotros una impresión tan honda que estamos dispuestos a aceptar que en la psique existen cosas de las que no tenemos conocimiento. Esas cosas son lo que llamamos «lo inconsciente».

NaÅ¡e doba je epochou chaosu a rozkladu. VÅ¡e se stalo problematickým. Jak se to v takových stavech dÄ›je vždy, tla?í se nevÄ›domé obsahy na hranice vÄ›domí s cílem kompenzovat jeho nouzi. Stojí proto zato pe?livÄ› sledovat vÅ¡echny hrani?ní jevy, jakkoli temné se mohou zdát, aby v nich byly nalezeny zárodky možných nových Ã…â"¢ád?.

A high regard for the unconscious psyche as a source of knowledge is by no means such a delusion as our Western rationalism likes to suppose. We are inclined to assume that, in the last resort, all knowledge comes from without. Yet today we know for certain that the unconscious contains contents which would mean an immeasurable increase of knowledge if they could only be made conscious.

Only Gnostics and contemporaries qualify, for they alone are both severed from their unconscious and aware of the fact.

Co jednou upadlo do nevÄ›domí, to nevÄ›domí podrží bez ohledu na to, zda tím vÄ›domí trpí nebo ne. VÄ›domí m?že umírat hlady a zimou, zatímco v nevÄ›domí se to zelená a kvete.

But people who are not above the general level of consciousness have not yet discovered that it is just as pre- sumptuous and fantastic to assume that matter produces mind, that apes give rise to human beings, that from the harmonious interplay of the drives of hunger, love, and power Kant's Critique of Pure Reason should have emerged, and that all this could not possibly be other than it is.

The morbid thought had a power of its own that he could not control. It was not foreseen in his philosophical brand of psychology, where everything flowed neatly from consciousness and sense-perception. The professor admitted that his case was pathological, but there his thinking stopped, because it had arrived at the sacrosanct border-line between the philosophical and the medical faculty.

In accordance with the prevailing tendency of consciousness to seek the source of all ills in the outside world, the cry goes up for political and social changes which, it is supposed, would automatically solve the much deeper problem of split personality. Hence it is that whenever this demand is fulfilled, political and social conditions arise which bring the same ills back again in altered form.