Definition of Unconscious

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Unconscious

Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.

Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration.

Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.

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Unconscious Quotations

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

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

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

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

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

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

We are all at times unconscious prophets.
Charles Spurgeon

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung

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

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

Unconscious Translations

unconscious in Dutch is buiten kennis, bewusteloos
unconscious in French is inconscient
unconscious in Italian is inconsapevole
unconscious in Portuguese is inconsciente
unconscious in Spanish is inconsciente, desmayado

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