#conscious

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X. ↗

— Lena Horne

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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion. ↗

— Craig Bruce

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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

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