Unconscious Quotes

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

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

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

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

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

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

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

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

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.