#unconscious

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

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astrology #astronomy #believe #every #few

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

— Anthony Burgess

#asserting #conscious mind #habit #itself #mind

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#conscious #difference #great #immeasurably #jesus

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit. ↗

— David Zucker

#bounds #far #force #i #keeps

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

— Richard Dawkins

#blind faith #discouraging #expedient #faith #inquiry

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#emerge #independent #purpose #unconscious

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not. ↗

— John Turturro

#movement #reveal #revealing #someone #sometimes

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#basic #certain #cultures #disparate #emerging

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#fear #give #liberated #liberates #light