Unconscious Quotes

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.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

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.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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 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 meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

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.

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.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.

I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.