Quotes of Unconscious - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ”

- Margaret Walker

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Walter Benjamin

“ My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ 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

“ We are all at times unconscious prophets. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits. ”

- Unknown

“ Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Parenting, at its best, comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic, involuntary, unconditional love. ”

- Sally James

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

- Marion Woodman

“ 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

“ There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. ”

- Sarah Bernhardt

“ The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character… ”

- Stephen Covey

“ Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ”

- Christian Nevell Bovee

“ Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ 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

“ The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. ”

- Bernard Shaw

“ 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 neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on. ”

- Rollo May

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

- Francis Jeffrey

“ Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”

- Anais Nin
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