#consciousness

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. ↗

— James Thurber

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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ↗

— Max Eastman

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Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232) ↗

— Torkom Saraydarian

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Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness. ↗

— Saul Williams

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This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. ↗

— Henry Williamson

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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