Unconscious Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

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

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

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

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

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

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