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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. (Quote by - Italo Calvino)

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

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell. (Quote by - Rebecca Harding Davis)

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. (Quote by - Catherine Drinker Bowen)

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

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal. (Quote by - Frederick Philip Grove)

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action. (Quote by - Marion Woodman)

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious (Quote by - Karl Kraus)

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. (Quote by - Louis Kronenberger)

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. (Quote by - Graham Greene)

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious. (Quote by - Louis Althusser)

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

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

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

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

South Africa had been under the cosh all afternoon to the extent that Graeme Smith - knocked unconscious during morning fielding practice - rose from his sick bed to regain control in the middle. (Quote by - Jonathan Agnew)

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. (Quote by - Neale Donald Walsch)

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. (Quote by - William Irwin Thompson)

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. (Quote by - Nathalie Sarraute)

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