Chris Jordan Quotes

There's stuff that everybody does that they don't know they do.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin.

All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us; they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.

The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.