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“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.”

People Way Giving Able Purpose Order Culture Understanding Growth Attitude Trouble Design Personality Ego Giving Up Conscious Planning Urges Rooted Utilitarian Inner Growth

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.”

Mean Ideas Feelings Individual Atheism Personality Conscious Crowds Positive Atheism Tendencies Characteristics Unconscious Principal Suggestions Identical Disappearance Contagion

Book:Psychologie des foules

Source: Psychologie des foules

“it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.”

Mind Book Fall Half Cases Struggle Achieve Products Personality Conscious Caught Conviction Publicity Artistry

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.”

People Way Two Found Process Personality Benefits Conscious Cat Sensitive Mutual Association Immense Two Ways Great Person Mutual Benefit Great Personality

Author:Patricia Moyes

“It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.”

“To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.”

Real Dark Personality Conscious Aspect Recognizing Shadow Self

Book:pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious

Source: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious

“The soul is that part of us that is immortal. It existed before the personality was born and it will exist after the personality is gone. The personality is an energy tool of the soul that is temporary. Through it we learn in this domain of the five senses. We learn through what we create and the impact that it has on us. This process is becoming conscious.”

Soul Energy Process Born Gone Five Personality Becoming Conscious Tools Impact Senses Immortal Temporary Domain Five Senses

Author:Gary Zukav

“Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.”

Doe Matter Eye Serious Personality Development Conscious Aspect All Things Tasks Oneself Saying Yes Dubious

Author:Carl Jung

“No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.”

Men Long Self Personality Singing Conscious Critical Indian Civilized Self Conscious Hymns Chanting Welsh Drumming

Book:The devils of Loudon

Source: The devils of Loudon

“I don't think I have changed my personality as much as I have evolved as a human. Before the name change, I was very timid, very self-conscious. Just not very confident. When I changed my name, it came from a place of power.”

Thinking Humans Self Names Changed Personality Conscious Self Conscious I Have Changed Name Changes

Author:Skylar Grey

“I'm kind of conscious and aware of how ridiculous everyone involved with politics or talking about politics, especially on television, is - all the shouting matches and the screaming and the over-the-top personalities, and everyone's just playing. It's like WWF for news, almost. It's really ridiculous and I really don't want to be a part of it, and I'm not trying to put on this persona of this angry revolutionary to get people to follow me.”

People Trying Kind Personality Conscious Ridiculous Revolutionary Persona Follow Me

Author:Aaron McGruder

“Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things to be a certain way even though they aren't, and that's one reason he lies. There can also be a conscious manipulative element to it. When he put forward, and politically thrived on, the falsehood of President Obama's birth in Kenya, outside the United States, he was manipulating that lie as well as undoubtedly believing it in part, at least in a segment of his personality.”

Believe Reason Reality Lying President Personality Birth Conscious Not Sure Delusion President Obama Falsehood Manipulative

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.”

Feels Has Beens Self Hard Character Lying Conditions Mankind Personality Conscious Fundamentals Remains Mad Guilt Violent Exposed Fades Irrational Comforting Convenience

Author:Peter Straub