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We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.
— M. Scott Peck
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
— Manuel Puig
Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
— Jim Butcher
The unconscious is our best collaborator.
— Mike Nichols
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
— D.H. Lawrence
I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.
— John Harvey Kellogg
The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
— Milton H. Erickson
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
— Edward Sapir
Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Yours is the face that matters most. So yours is the one I wear. My unconscious reflection of you.
— Jodi Meadows
Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.
— Eckhart Tolle
People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.
— Chuck Klosterman
Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience. But they are also unconscious.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.
— P.J. Parker
Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.
— Sara Sheridan
Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate.
— Jerry Colonna
In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.
— Henry David Thoreau
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
— Jean Cocteau
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious
— Carl Jung
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
— William Stewart Halsted
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
— Charles Lindbergh
Of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.
— Fredric Wertham
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
— Sigmund Freud
The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.
— Alison Bechdel
She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up.
— Helen Hodgman
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
— Carl Jung
Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.
— Nora Roberts
The river in front of her was black. She thought it contained many things.
— Gisele Prassinos
The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.
— Henry David Thoreau
He begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and the unconscious life.
— Erich Maria Remarque
In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.
— George Lakoff
How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.
— Paula Modersohn-Becker
On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
— Warren Farrell
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
— C. G. Jung
I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
— Christopher Hitchens
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
— Philip K. Dick
Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.
— Robert E. Ornstein
The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
— David Whyte
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
— Oliver Sacks
Most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition.
— Haruki Murakami
happened - but I am pretty sure my unconscious mind played a role in it all. Well, to make a long story short, the cat
— Leslie Riopel
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
— Otto Weininger
is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.
— Edith Wharton
We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.
— Sharon Gannon
I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.
— Kathryn Harrison
One thing only can stand against the power of the unconscious and this, paradoxical as it may sound, is the power of individuality.
— M. Esther Harding
The mind is inherently embodied.Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. — George Lakoff
The others were a little surprised when Piper came back on a pegasus with two unconscious demigods.
— Rick Riordan
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
— Anthony Burgess
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
— Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
— Siri Hustvedt
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
— G.K. Chesterton
... the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly - by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.
— Mary MacLane
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
— George Bernard Shaw
In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.
— Richard Dawkins
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
— E. Stanley Jones
Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.
— Stephen King
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists ... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.
— William Baziotes
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
— Bertrand Russell
He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold.
— Cortney S. Warren
Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven.
— St. John Climacus
Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.
— Phoebe Cates
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
— Italo Calvino
I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
— Anna Deavere Smith
The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.
— Gustave Le Bon
The man lay there silent and unresponsive. An unconscious man, it turned out, was a perfect sounding board for her doubts.
— Bryan Costales
The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
— Carl Jung
