#conscious

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

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I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about? ↗

— Liam Neeson

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The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. ↗

— William James

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