#conscious

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#few #first #great #his #hours

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#may #nature #psychical #unconscious #whatever

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#dying #good #good work #half-hour #hope

I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#eat #i #obviously #regular #watch

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american music #appalachian #consciously #folk #i

Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#body #character #characteristics #dog #feel

Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#bit #come #consciously #ever #hide

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#aesthetic #alienated #being #clear #consciousness

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely. ↗

— Willard Gaylin

#behavior #completely #define #distortion #exclusively