Unconscious Quotes
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell. (Quote by - Rebecca Harding Davis)
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. (Quote by - Catherine Drinker Bowen)
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. (Quote by - Margaret Walker)
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal. (Quote by - Frederick Philip Grove)
The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action. (Quote by - Marion Woodman)
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. (Quote by - Louis Kronenberger)
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious. (Quote by - Louis Althusser)
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. (Quote by - Francis Jeffrey)
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
South Africa had been under the cosh all afternoon to the extent that Graeme Smith - knocked unconscious during morning fielding practice - rose from his sick bed to regain control in the middle. (Quote by - Jonathan Agnew)
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. (Quote by - Neale Donald Walsch)
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. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
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. (Quote by - William Irwin Thompson)
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
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. (Quote by - Nathalie Sarraute)
An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing. (Quote by - Franz Clemens Brentano)
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. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
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. (Quote by - Joseph C. Lincoln)
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. (Quote by - Helen Garner)
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. (Quote by - Manuel Puig)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
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. (Quote by - Herbert Read)
Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not. (Quote by - John Turturro)
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. (Quote by - Gilbert Murray)
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. (Quote by - Benjamin F. Wade)
I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death. (Quote by - John Harvey Kellogg)
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. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. (Quote by - Man Ray )
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. (Quote by - Henri Bergson)
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. (Quote by - John Fahey)
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
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. (Quote by - Leslie Charteris)
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. (Quote by - Jasper Johns)
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. (Quote by - Edward Thorndike)
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. (Quote by - Anthony Burgess)
This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief. (Quote by - Charles Olson)
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. (Quote by - Joan D. Vinge)
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. (Quote by - Willard Gaylin)
Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose. (Quote by - William Irwin Thompson)
We are all at times unconscious prophets. (Quote by - Charles Spurgeon)
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. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
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. (Quote by - Oliver J. Lodge)
