Lancelot Law Whyte - Unconscious Quotes

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No scientist has yet provided an acceptable definition of "mind" or "mental" that reveals the character of "unconscious mental processes," and no physicist a lucid definition of "elementary particles" that shows how they can appear or disappear, and why there are so many.

Lancelot Law Whyte

Belief in a transcendental divinity arose from a misinterpretation of intimations from the less conscious levels of the mind.... God is in the unconscious, is the unconscious, perhaps.

Lancelot Law Whyte

The idea of the unconscious mental processes was, in many of its aspects, conceivable around 1700, topical around 1800, and became effective around 1900, thanks to the imaginative efforts of a large number of individuals of varied interests in many lands.

Lancelot Law Whyte

Science starts with an assumption which is always present, though it may be unconscious, may be forgotten, and may sometimes even be denied.

Lancelot Law Whyte