#consc

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ↗

— James Baldwin

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. ↗

— Carl Andre

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I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

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So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. ↗

— Robert Barclay

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Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

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In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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The only way to follow your path is to take the lead. ↗

— Joe Peterson

#leadership #self-improvement #leadership