Quotes about Unconsciousness
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
- DH Lawrence
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
- Mark Twain
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man in the mass sinks unconsciously to an inferior moral and intellectual level, to that level which is always there, below the threshold of consciousness, ready to break forth as soon as it is activated by the formation of a mass. ... Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbor, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas.
- Carl Jung
Sincere people do not think of themselves, of their talent, their genius, their virtue, their beautify and because they are so unconscious of themselves, they attract all, and win their confidence, affection, and esteem.
- Napoleon Hill
The thrill that came with each blow was wonderfully familiar. Unable to stop and unwilling to, Frank kept going even though the big man was unconscious. The women stopped clawing each other and pulled at Frank's collar.
- Toni Morrison
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
- Frank Herbert
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
- Henry David Thoreau