#consciousness

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#compromise #conditions #consciousness #continuous #equilibrium

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#although #attention #brain #calculations #conscious

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. ↗

— John Cheever

#am #comprehend #consciousness #danger #going

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#almost #anthropology #become #been #consciousness

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#aware #concerns #consciousness #gender #i

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #could #different #foreign #intrinsically

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #phenomenology #proposition #pure #put

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude? ↗

— Ken Kesey

#check #christian #consciousness #dude #falls

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#catch #clauses #comedy #community #consciousness

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#consciousness #interests #itself #life #me