Unconscious Quotes · Page 19

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions…

— Baruch Spinoza

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god…

— Frank Herbert

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong

“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just…

— Jon Krakauer

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

— John Boorman

Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of…

— James Luther Adams

I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“It’s the automatic, unconscious way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I’m operating on the automatic,…

— David Foster Wallace

Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force…

— Bill Vaughan

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the…

— Fernando Pessoa

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the…

— Virginia Henderson

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come…

— J. G. Ballard

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and…

— Carl Jung

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which…

— Rod Serling

“The girl's still unconscious. I'm surprised you didn't kill her.' 'These miniature versions have parents. And parents ask questions.”

— Terrance Dicks

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

— John Searle

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed…

— Rajneesh

They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and…

— Ivo Andric

A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I…

— Zoro

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are…

— Northrop Frye

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious…

— Edward Hirsch

The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility…

— Eckhart Tolle

“To be rendered unconscious; to lie exposed, without shame, at the mercy of others; to be touched, incised, plundered, remade - this…

— Margaret Atwood

“The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it…

— John Bradshaw

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night…

— Milton Sapirstein

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

— Russell Simmons

All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as…

— Aubrey Beardsley

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration.…

— Janet Fitch

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved.…

— Marianne Williamson

Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite…

— Anonymous

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the…

— Herbert Read

The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as…

— Carl Jung

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

— Frank Herbert

A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best…

— Clare Eames

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words…

— Allan Bloom

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be…

— Sigmund Freud