“A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.” MenWayBelieveLongSoulDecisionSecretEmotionMastersConsciousMoodLikesFactorsUnconsciousArrangements Author:Carl Jung
“Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.” DesireSecretBoysBloodYouthSummerConsciousDrunkFlamesGenerousBreastsShyWarmthInvitesBetrayFifteenVirginsMaidsRaptureFettersBashful Author:John Armstrong
“The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.” WritingBelieveLyingForceSecretStyleSpeechConsciousVerbsAdjectivesNounsPedigreeParts Of Speech Book:Among my Books, etc Source: Among my Books, etc
“Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.” WantKindLittlesSelfSecretWeekConsciousCrisisStrategyPaintFedsCantSelf ConsciousFed Up Author:Gerhard Richter
“Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.” MenWorldHas BeensCultureSecretMistakeCuttingSeaProudGeniusJudgmentConsciousAppreciateFancyFedsMelancholyCynicismRecallsPlatoGrandeurLoftyComplacentOld WorldQuaintPictorialPique Author:Richard Holt Hutton
“The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven. ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious.” MenHas BeensBeliefSecretBehindsConsciousMen And WomenForgivenGodlyWrong ThingsGodly Man Author:Joseph Prince
“The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.” SecretToo MuchConsciousMovedAccessUnconsciousRationalityExceptional Author:Carl Jung