Unconscious Quotes

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.