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

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
John Fahey

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Margaret Walker

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Sigmund Freud

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
Leslie Charteris

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte Bronte

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
Jasper Johns

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
Edward Thorndike

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Anthony Burgess

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
Francis Jeffrey

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
Charles Olson

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
Joan D. Vinge

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
Willard Gaylin

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
William Irwin Thompson

We are all at times unconscious prophets.
Charles Spurgeon

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

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
Oliver Joseph Lodge