Quotes About Unconscious

They slept so soundly, though, nothing would wake them before daybreak. That was obvious. They could pass from sleep to death without even realising it.

Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one.

I have always found in my own work – quite different from yours, of course, but possibly we may generalize – that zeroing in tightly on a particular problem is self-defeating. Why not relax and talk about something else, and your unconscious mind – not labouring under the weight of concentrated thought – may solve the problem for you.

I have always found in my own work—quite different from yours, of course, but possibly we may generalize—that zeroing in tightly on a particular problem is self-defeating. Why not relax and talk about something else, and your unconscious mind—not laboring under the weight of concentrated thought—may solve the problem for you.

L'ennui est le sentiment apparent, comme une couverture d'autres émotions. Nous appelons cela un sentiment parasite ou un racket, c'est un sentiment que nous éprouvons en lieu et place d'un autre, indicible, inconscient même, le plus souvent. (p. 48)

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.

The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to become aware of these key human actions.

Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child's best interest.

How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.

I do not remember too much now. Certain things. Certain images. All sorts of irrational, irrational because nonsensically inappropriate, pieces of information stream through my head, as if my unconscious were bombarding me with words and phrases, an enemy agent subverting a radio broadcast.

Haymitch plummets off the stage and knocks himself unconscious. He's disgusting, but I'm grateful. With every camera gleefully trained on him,

Cinna, being dragged, bloody and unconscious, from the Launch Room before the Games.

That which you call the devil is part of you. The myth of the devil and of evil is imposed on us by our ignorance. The human mind is a great wonder and magician. It can assume the form of both a devil and a divine being any time it wishes. It can be a great enemy or a great friend, creating either hell or heaven for us. There are many tendencies hidden in the unconscious mind which must be uncovered, faced, and transcended before one intends to tread the path of enlightenment.

Consciously I love you so intensely, which is why I choose to hurt you unconsciously!

Autosuggestion acts by itself, unconsciously, like a machine that reacts in the same way from the same stimulus

we are likely to unwittingly simplify the problem because our minds routinely do so without our knowing it.

without being conscious of it.

Researchers may have some conscious or unconscious bias, either because of a strongly held prior belief or because a positive finding would be better for their career. (No one ever gets rich or famous by proving what doesn't cause cancer.)

we are a kind of elaborate tool in the unconscious service of the DNA swimming around inside us, determined (if strings of molecules can be determined) to make more copies of itself.

Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf of our own interest. It allows us to see another power operating beneath the apparent predominance of self-interest. Of course, the commonsensical understanding of psychoanalysis is exactly the opposite of this, contending that psychoanalysis reduces everything to self-interest.

Carl Jung, who talked about the "collective unconscious," but many others have developed similar ideas. The concept is that a group of people—even humanity as a whole—develop a collective state of consciousness that affects all people who are part of the group.

the spirit of regression, [which] threatens us with bondage to the mother and with dissolution and extinction in the unconscious.