Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.

Carl Jung

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

Carl Jung

As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

Carl Jung

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

Carl Jung

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

Carl Jung

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Carl Jung

No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

Carl Jung

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

Carl Jung

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

Chang-Rae Lee

Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

Dionne Warwick

I'm not psychic myself.

Dionne Warwick

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

Anton Chekhov

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

bell hooks

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

Dick Cavett

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

Debbie Ford

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

Don DeLillo

Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.

Criss Angel

No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

Danny Elfman

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

Curtis Sittenfeld

There are a lot of things in the world that are a lot weirder than psychic abilities, that we accept as true.

Curtis Sittenfeld

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.

Courtney Love

I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.

Amy Sedaris

If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I always feel like there's something around me protecting me.

Jayne Ann Krentz

The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

Martha Beck

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Marshall McLuhan

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

Irvine Welsh

Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

Mads Mikkelsen

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

Mae West

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

Henri Bergson

There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.