Pastoral Resources

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

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.

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

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.