Unconscious Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

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.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

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

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.

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.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

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

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

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

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.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.