The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
~By Carl Jung ~
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
~By Raj Kapoor ~
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.
~By Louis Althusser ~
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
~By Dario Fo ~
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger ~
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~By Anais Nin ~
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
~By Vernon Howard ~
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
~By Sam Abell ~
My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.
~By Gig Young ~
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.
~By Thomas Mann ~
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
~By Marston Morse ~
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
~By Sydney Madwed ~
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity.
~By Masami Akita ~
Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.
~By Franz Clemens Brentano ~
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
~By Walt Whitman ~
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
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.
~By John Corigliano ~
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
~By Karl Kraus ~
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.
~By John Le Carre ~
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
~By Marc Maron ~
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.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
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.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.
~By David Zucker ~
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
~By Manuel Puig ~
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
~By Man Ray ~
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
~By Henri Bergson ~
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
~By Charles Olson ~
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
~By Gustave Meyrink ~
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
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.
~By Saul Bellow ~
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
~By Margaret Walker ~
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.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
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.
~By Willard Gaylin ~
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
~By Manuel Puig ~
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.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
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.
~By Jasper Johns ~
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
~By Francis Jeffrey ~
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
~By Luis Barragan ~
I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.
~By John Harvey Kellogg ~
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
~By Alice Stone Blackwell ~
Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
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.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
~By Franz Kafka ~
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
~By William Peter Blatty ~
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.
~By John Drinkwater ~
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.
~By Joseph C. Lincoln ~
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.
~By Herbert Read ~
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
~By Donald Trump ~
The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.
~By Peter Fraser ~
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
~By John Abercrombie ~
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
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.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
~By Manuel Puig ~
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.
~By John Turturro ~
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
~By Thomas Mann ~
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
~By Edward Bond ~
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
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