Quotes about Unconscious

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.

The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.

If you do these things (read good books), what will be your reward? Gradually, unconsciously but inevitably, your diction will begin to take on added beauty and refinement. Gradually, you will begin to reflect someone the glory and beauty and majesty of your companions.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

From the unconscious there emanate determining influences…which, independently of tradition, guarantee in every single individual a similarity and even a sameness of experience, and also of the way it is represented imaginatively.

This is certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience may be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge. Knowledge of God is a transcendental problem.

In order to make the language of dreams understood, we use many parallels from the psychology of primitive races as well as from historical symbolism. This is because dreams originate in the unconscious, which contains the residual potentialities of function of all preceding epochs of evolution.

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.