#conscious

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. ↗

— Terry Gross

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Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

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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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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. ↗

— Eben Alexander

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I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

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What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ↗

— David Mitchell

#equality #hatred #justice #perception #racism