Unconscious Quotes

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Every human emits unconscious vocal undertones that determine who the leader is in the room.

The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to become aware of these key human actions.

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires.

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.

It turns out that we determine who our leaders are by unconscious undertones we all project with our voices - and of which we're completely unaware.

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about delving into the unconscious.

Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.

The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever.

Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.

If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body, and only for the body, lives in sin.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!" "Roooaaarrr!" "Maybe not," Grover corrected.

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.