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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

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.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

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

An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.

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

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

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

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.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

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

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.