Unconscious Quotes

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

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.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

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.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

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.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.