Unconscious Quotes
Unconscious Quote of the day
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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.
All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.
I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.
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.
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
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.
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.
The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.
Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.
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.
