Unconscious Quotes

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. (Sigmund Freud)
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
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. View quote
Saul Bellow
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. View quote
Sigmund Freud
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. View quote
Karl Kraus
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. View quote
Richard Dawkins
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. View quote
Manuel Puig
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. View quote
T. S. Eliot
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. (Leo Tolstoy)
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. View quote
Frank Herbert
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. View quote
Jean Cocteau
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. View quote
Sigmund Freud
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. View quote
Manuel Puig
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. View quote
Manuel Puig
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. View quote
Manuel Puig
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. View quote
Oliver Lodge
Evolution doesn't depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process. View quote
Michael Pollan
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. (Graham Greene)
Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts. View quote
Rajneesh
In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. ... It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind. View quote
Walter Mosley