mind Quotes

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.