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“To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.”

Knows Different Self Matter Memories Ability Awareness Perspective Intellectual Training Conscious Technique Analysis Self Conscious Synthesis Conscious Awareness

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.”

Mind May Persons Ideas Facts Effort Accepting Conscious Accepted Analysis Rejects

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.”

Mind Ideas Conscious Rational Analysis New Ideas Rejected Limbo

Author:Rene Descartes

“There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.”

Source: The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit

“The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science.”

Important Process Common Conscious Fundamentals Analysis Unconscious Division Framework Premises Psycho

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.”

Made Ideas States Force Conscious Resistance Analysis Repression

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Sometimes Helping Action Process Memories Conscious First Time Patient Analysis Unconscious Explicit

Author:Norman Doidge