Top Unconscious Quotes
Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.
John Turturro
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Booker T. Washington
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
David Letterman
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Helen Garner
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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 
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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
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Jackson Pollock
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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson
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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
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
Manuel Puig
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig
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Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
Louis Kronenberger
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Anthony Burgess
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Popular Unconscious Authors
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Edward BondZora Neale HurstonHerbert ReadDavid LettermanCharles SpurgeonHenri BergsonDavid GutersonEdward SapirNeale Donald WalschSaul BellowCharlotte BronteMarc MaronWalter BenjaminJoan D. VingeBooker T. Washington
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