The Unconscious Quotes

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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

Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

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

Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

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

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

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

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

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.

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

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.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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

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

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

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.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.

it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.