"Man cannot persist long in a conscious..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
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“Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.”
“Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.”
“Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.”