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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

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This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief. ↗

— Charles Olson

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Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

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The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water. ↗

— Leonard Orr

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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

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