#consciousness

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. ↗

— Robert Redford

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There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country. ↗

— Tim Robbins

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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#die #give #great #hope #i

In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. ↗

— Pir Vilayat Khan

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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved. ↗

— Hans Kung

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It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

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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

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