Consciousness Quotes
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Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.
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Individual consciousness is just sickness.
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To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality.
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.
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The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
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People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.
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We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?
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You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
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You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
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When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.
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You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
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If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.
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I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
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I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
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The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.
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I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.
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The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
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The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?
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In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.
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We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.
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I sort of see cannabis as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.
