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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. -- Sigmund Freud
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
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. -- Steven Spielberg
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. -- David Letterman
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. -- Jean Cocteau
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. -- W. H. Auden
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious. -- Louis Althusser
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. -- Sam Abell
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. -- Karl Kraus
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. -- Carl Jung
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. -- Charlotte Bronte
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. -- Francis Jeffrey
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. -- Neale Donald Walsch
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
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. -- Carl Jung
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
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
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
If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal. -- Frederick Philip Grove
A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations. -- Carl Jung
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine." -- Carl Jung
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. -- Carl Jung
Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose. -- William Irwin Thompson
The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious. -- D.T. Suzuki
Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head. -- Robert E. Ornstein
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. -- Eckhart Tolle
Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor. -- Bryant McGill
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form. -- Hermann Hesse
Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster. -- Russell Simmons
Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication. -- Rollo May
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. -- Jessa Gamble
On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious. -- Will Smith
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. -- D. H. Lawrence
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. -- Man Ray
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. -- Jennifer Egan
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. -- Carl Jung
Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon. -- Jon Krakauer
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. -- Leslie Charteris
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results. -- Marilyn Monroe
To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results. -- Louise Bourgeois
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. -- Bernie Siegel
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. -- Tony Kushner
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving. -- Michael Eric Dyson
We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. -- Henry B. Eyring
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. -- Eckhart Tolle
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds. -- Anne Roiphe
Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance. -- Josh Billings
Most wonderful things are unconscious. -- Agnes Denes
You can trust the unconscious. -- Milton H. Erickson
You're always running into people's unconscious. -- Marilyn Monroe
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious -- Carl Jung
The unconscious is our best collaborator. -- Mike Nichols
Hitler's unconscious seems to be female. -- Carl Jung
The unconscious creates, the ego edits. -- Stanley Kunitz
Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking. -- Thomas Merton
We are all at times unconscious prophets. -- Charles Spurgeon
She can't say no if she's unconscious. -- Zach Braff
The unconscious is structured like a language. -- Jacques Lacan
The greatest sin is to be unconscious. -- Carl Jung
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. -- T. S. Eliot
The unconscious psyche believes in life after death -- Carl Jung
Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge. -- Perry Farrell
Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to. -- Tony Robbins
Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm. -- Dorothea Brande
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other. -- Jacques Lacan
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. -- Sigmund Freud
Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits. -- Carl Jung
The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive. -- Britta Phillips
Art always has something of the unconscious about it. -- D.T. Suzuki
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. -- Stephen King
Never give a conscious meaning to your unconscious acts! -- Ramana Pemmaraju
The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. -- Richard Wagner
Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. -- Alain de Botton
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. -- Marianne Moore
Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality. -- Bertrand Russell
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality." -- Oswald Chambers
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. -- Sigmund Freud
The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking. -- Richard Tarnas
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. -- Oswald Chambers
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Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level. -- Paul G
The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious. -- Carl Jung
The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. -- John Fahey
What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious? -- Steven Wright
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. -- Thomas Carlyle
The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do? -- Milton H. Erickson
I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. -- Christopher Hitchens
I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious. -- Chris Colfer
The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. -- Mary Baker Eddy
World praises the amalgamation of conscious & unconscious, History is the testament. -- Shreyansh Jaiswal
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated. -- Sophia Loren
World praises the amalgamation of unconscious & conscious, History is the testament. -- Shreyansh Jaiswal
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. -- Carl Jung
The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. -- Anais Nin
Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious. -- Donald L. Hicks
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep. -- Nancy Friday
The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry -- Matthew Arnold
Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state. -- Ogwo David Emenike
I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death. -- John Harvey Kellogg
I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it. -- Zac Efron
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for. -- Philip K. Dick
Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role. -- Mason Cooley
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. -- Anne Lamott
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. -- Graham Greene
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance. -- Zack Love
Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires. -- Nick Morgan

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