Unconscious Quotes - page 3

Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose. (H. L. Mencken)
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals. View quote
Lewis Mumford
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls," and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. View quote
Erich Fromm
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. View quote
Francis Jeffrey
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness; from it you can best tap the unconscious constellation. This probably why it is used in most mantic methods. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool. View quote
William Baziotes
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. View quote
Louis Kronenberger
You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism. (Allen Ginsberg)
Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother. View quote
Marion Woodman
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still. View quote
Julian Jaynes
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me. View quote
Mark Twain
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice. View quote
Edmund White
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. View quote
Otto Weininger
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. View quote
Jean Cocteau
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. View quote
Steven Spielberg
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. (Sigmund Freud)
I don't know where it comes from. I think some of it comes from the unconscious. Sometimes it is more complete than other times. View quote
Mark Strand
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. View quote
Norman Doidge
Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!" "Roooaaarrr!" "Maybe not," Grover corrected. View quote
Rick Riordan