“Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.” PeopleKnowsMayConsciousDignityIntellectDo You KnowInsignificance Author:Anton Chekhov
“So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.” LittlesArtImportantSeemsQualityExpressionConsciousArt IsImportanceIntellectSubconsciousPsychologist Author:Edward Hopper
“Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.” FormStrongConsciousConnectedIntellectFactorsPhenomenonSublimePositively Author:Pitirim Sorokin
“We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls our behavior. It's the conscious mind where the intellect is resident. So the conscious mind is understanding information, but it's not internalizing it.” MindTwoUnderstandingInformationBehaviorConsciousIntellectSubconsciousResidentsConscious MindInternalizing Author:Bob Proctor
“The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.” MenWorldI CanWholeUniverseForceCausesTermNaturalViewsDoubtConsciousArgumentRelationBlindProductionsExcuseIntellectOperationsIntimateCrushLatterInterventionProgressionAnalogiesNo Excuses Author:Thomas Huxley
“Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.” I CanMemoriesFiveConsciousIntellectSensesAbstractAssumptionMinoritiesSelectivePreconceptionsFive SensesGrief Observed Book:A Grief Observed Source: A Grief Observed
“For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.” WayMayRealityEmotionCreativityAchieveDrugConsciousConnectionsInstinctIntellectUsersSubconsciousNeuroticIntegratedSynthesisMerging Author:Anais Nin