Quotes about "unconscious"

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Definitions and meanings of word "unconscious"

• Noun: that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware

• Adj: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; example: "lay unconscious on the floor"

• Adj: without conscious volition

• Adj: (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; example: "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dicken"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "unconscious"

William Irwin Thompson
4 quotes about unconscious
American Philosopher, Critic, Poet
Born Saturday 16 July 1938
Manuel Puig
4 quotes about unconscious
Argentinian Author
Wednesday 28 December 1932 - Sunday 22 July 1990
David Herbert Lawrence
2 quotes about unconscious
English Writer
Friday 11 September 1885 - Sunday 2 March 1930
Walter Benjamin
one quote about unconscious
German Philosopher, Critic
Friday 15 July 1892 - Friday 27 September 1940
Nathalie Sarraute
one quote about unconscious
Russian Lawyer
Wednesday 18 July 1900 - Tuesday 19 October 1999
Karl Kraus
one quote about unconscious
Austrian Writer, Critic, Poet, Journalist, Playwright
Tuesday 28 April 1874 - Friday 12 June 1936
Sigmund Freud
2 quotes about unconscious
Austrian Psychologist, Philosopher, Scientist, Psychiatrist
Tuesday 6 May 1856 - Saturday 23 September 1939
Carl Jung
2 quotes about unconscious
Swiss Psychologist, Scientist, Psychiatrist
Monday 26 July 1875 - Tuesday 6 June 1961
T. S. Eliot
one quote about unconscious
American Critic, Poet, Playwright, Publisher
Wednesday 26 September 1888 - Monday 4 January 1965
Saul Bellow
one quote about unconscious
American Writer, Novelist
Wednesday 10 June 1914 - Tuesday 5 April 2005
Henri Frederic Amiel
2 quotes about unconscious
Swiss Philosopher
Thursday 27 September 1821 - 1881
Edward Thorndike
one quote about unconscious
American Psychologist
Monday 31 August 1874 - Tuesday 9 August 1949

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Karl Kraus

Words: unconscious, knows, more, about, consciousness, psychologist
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

Karl Kraus

Words: bad, poet, usually, unconscious, conscious
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Karl Kraus

Words: camera, introduces, unconscious, optics, does, psychoanalysis, impulses
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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.

Karl Kraus

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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.

Karl Kraus

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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.

Karl Kraus

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But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

Karl Kraus

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The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus

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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.

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus

Words: country, unconscious, awake, belief
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I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

Karl Kraus

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Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Karl Kraus

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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Karl Kraus

Words: paint, photographed, comes, imagination, dreams, unconscious, drive
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I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Karl Kraus

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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Karl Kraus

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A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus

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My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus

Words: nothing, respecting, man, may, long, unconscious, extent, strength, prejudices
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