No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.
Christopher Dawson

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.
Carl Jung

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin

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

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
Edward Bond

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
John Drinkwater

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Saul Bellow

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter Benjamin

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
E. Stanley Jones

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
William Irwin Thompson

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
Augustus Y. Napier

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.
Peter Fraser

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
Marc Maron

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund Freud

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Henri Bergson