Unconsciousness Quotes
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Tea is like the East he grows in, A great yellow Mandarin With urbanity of manner And unconsciousness of sin.
— 1914 The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 2. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).
In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.
john carew eccles— As quoted in "Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain : The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism" (2003) by Donald E. Watson and Bernard O. Williams
The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
fernando pessoa— Original: A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência.
— Ibid., p. 91
A sense of utter loneliness loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.
edward bellamy— Ch. 2 (Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880))
" Life exists immersed in a sea of unconsciousness", he reminded himself. "In the drug, these people gain a view of that sea".
frank herbert— Chapter Ten.
A mother-complex is not got rid of by blindly reducing the mother to human proportions. Besides that we run the risk of dissolving the experience "Mother" into atoms, thus destroying something supremely valuable and throwing away the golden key which a good fairy laid in our cradle. That is why mankind has always instinctively added the pre-existent divine pair to the personal parents-the "god"father and "god"-mother of the newborn child-so that, from sheer unconsciousness or shortsighted rationalism, he should never forget himself so far as to invest his own parents with divinity.
carl jung— "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1939) In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious P.172
The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
— Original: A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência.
— Ibid., p. 91
"Some," answered Imlac, "have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759) Ch.48
The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.
Piet Mondrian— Quoted in F Elgar Mondrian (1968).
"Some," answered Imlac, "have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
samuel johnson— Chapter 48. (The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759))
