Hidden Influences Quotes

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

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

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

The reasons for public sentiment are often more unconscious than conscious.

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!

Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.

We do things instinctively and not necessarily rationally. It's almost like we're being controlled by unseen forces, which is something I don't like. I've been making a real effort to try to find out what those forces are and get them out of my life.

We perceive, we remember our experiences, we make judgments, we act - and in all of these endeavors, we are influenced by factors that we aren't aware of.

Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us.

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.