Psychological Unity Quotes

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded.

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.