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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.
You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
Performing unconsented surgeries is considered battery because the patient can't voice their opinion - they're unconscious.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
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.
The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.
Sometimes we need pure relief. Sometimes we need pure escapism. Sometimes we need major reflection on some aspects of our collective unconscious.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.
I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.
I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.
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.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
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.
I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.