The Unconscious Quotes

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

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

Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?

We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that we are asleep.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

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.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

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.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

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

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.

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

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the 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.

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.

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.

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

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

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.