#conscious

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#child #children #conscious #everybody #existence

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality. ↗

— David Friedrich Strauss

#consciousness #evident #god #him #human

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#always #aware #composer #conscious #his

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#career #conscious #conscious decision #decision #did

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#follow #give #happen #information #know

Death is a part of Life, they are dancing together the dance of infinity in front of the gates of Time. We can live our dreams as we are dreaming our future. Time is the Endless Consciousness ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#dancing #death #dreams #endless #gates

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#avoid #fun #games #needs #perceived

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#contending #discourses #instructed #needing #quickly