Arthur E. Powell Quotes
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.
Arthur E. Powell
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
Emile Zola
Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…
David Lewis-Williams
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
Aristotle
I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
Vincent Van Gogh
Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
Vladimir Lenin
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
Friedrich Nietzsche
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
William James
Being a member of the court is a lot like walking through fresh concrete. Do you remember doing that as a child and leaving a footprint and it hardens after you? I'm afraid that's what we do and we look back and we see those opinions we've written and they've sort of hardened after us.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.
Ian Bogost
Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.
J. M. Roberts
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.
Arthur E. Powell
