#unconscious

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#being scared #craziness #deny #enjoy #explain

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

— Man Ray

#comes #dreams #drive #i #imagination

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#been #discover #during #earlier #express

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#consciousness #gradually #into #listen #lot

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. ↗

— Marc Maron

#almost #become #collective #consciousness #cosmic

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#associates #favorable #feature #forthcoming #her

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#consciousness #discourse #failure #freudian-slips #lacan

I'll have to remember that for the future. When in a life-or-death battle, be sure to club unconscious everyone on your side as early on in the fight as possible," Laura said, laughing. ↗

— Mark Walden

#fight #laura #otto #unconscious #death

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#intuitition #judgement #unconscious #experience

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#free-will #unconscious #freedom