Unconscious Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dream, Years, Collective Unconscious

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• 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.

  Booker T. Washington

  Communication, Vocabulary, Pockets

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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  Walter Bagehot

  Air, Civilization, Luxury

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Games, Despair, Amusement

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.15

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• 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.

  William Irwin Thompson

  World, Structure, Process

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• These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Fate, Heaven, Shadow

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2016). “Life in the Iron-Mills”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.

  Frederick Philip Grove

  Strong, Mean, Goal

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• Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Independent, Purpose, Conscious

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• 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.

  Jasper Johns

  Believe, Rooms, Way

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• 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.

  Augustus

  Lying, Mind, Roles

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

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Mind, Tasks

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• The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mind, Afternoon, Awareness

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Jesus, Greatness, Differences

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• The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

  Richard Dawkins

  Simple, Blind Belief, Curiosity

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.219, Oxford University Press

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Proud, Action

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Men, Self

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

  Louis Althusser

  Littles, Consciousness, Ideology

  "For Marx".

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• The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

  Marion Woodman

  Dancer, Soul, Connections

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

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Men, Long, Prejudice

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• The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,
  some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
  On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.
  The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

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• My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

  Forrest Griffin

  Philosophy, Mma, Worry

  Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss (2009). “Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Saul Bellow

  Definitions, Conscious, Analysts

  Saul Bellow (2016). “The Dean's December”, p.245, Odyssey Editions

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

  Walter Benjamin

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  May

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• 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.

  Stanislav Grof

  Race, Collective Unconscious, Culture

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