quotes about Unconscious
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
-- Agnes DenesSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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 -
Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.
-- Austin Osman SpareSource : Joseph Beuys (2010). “What is money?: a discussion”, p.1, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
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The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.
-- Carl Jung -
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We are all at times unconscious prophets.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
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Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
-- David Letterman -
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
-- Edward Bond -
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More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
-- Edward Sapir -
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.
-- George A. Sheehan -
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
-- Gustav Mahler -
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The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
-- Herbert Marcuse -
The unconscious is structured like a language.
-- Jacques LacanSource : "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud" (1957)
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The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
-- Jacques Lacan -
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
-- Jessa Gamble -
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There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
-- Marianne Moore -
The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
-- Milton H. Erickson -
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
-- Nancy Friday -
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
-- Neal ShustermanSource : Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.403, Simon and Schuster
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Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.
-- Perry Farrell -
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political
-- Renata Adler -
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Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.
-- Robert Aris Willmott -
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.
-- Russell Banks -
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
-- Sigmund Freud -
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Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
-- Vine Deloria Jr.Source : Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”
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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
-- William Peter Blatty -
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
-- William Ralph Inge -
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
-- William Stewart HalstedSource : Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 23: 191 (1912)
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If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.
-- Lisa Yuskavage -
Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.
-- Malcolm Morley -
The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.
-- Britta Phillips -
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The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
-- John Fahey