Unconscious Quotes · Page 7

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

— Charles Spurgeon

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

“The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure.”

— C.G. Jung

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

— Milton H. Erickson

“The third power cue helps you learn to read others’ unconscious messages. What unconscious messages are you receiving from others?”

— Nick Morgan

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

— Russell Banks

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

— Sigmund Freud

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

— Gig Young

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

— Hamza Yusuf

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility,…

— Carl Jung

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you…

— Roger Goodell

Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least…

— Wilhelm Wundt

“I'll have to remember that for the future. When in a life-or-death battle, be sure to club unconscious everyone on your side…

— Mark Walden

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much…

— Edward Boyden

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of…

— Frederic Dan Huntington

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to…

— Thomas Keating

“The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by…

— Louisa May Alcott

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical…

— David Sedaris

We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible,…

— Rachel Pollack

SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the…

— Gregory Benford

The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no…

— William James

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of…

— Carl Jung

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on…

— Jonathan Lethem

Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“…the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.”

— Mary MacLane

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

— Henri Bergson

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

— Jacques Lacan

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

... 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

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

— Erica Jong

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

— Manuel Puig

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

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

— Carl Jung

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.

— David Eddings

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

— Paulo Coelho