Unconscious Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

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.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

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.

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

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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

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

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

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.