#consciousness

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#arrogance #british #effectual #makes #marvelous

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #characteristics #different #extremely #fair

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. ↗

— Iain Banks

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When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#before #doubts #forced #go #into

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#back #conditions #consciousness #context #derives

But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#beings #conceive #consciousness #differentiation #endowed

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#christianity #consciousness #declared #doubt #had

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#art #artist #contemporary #contemporary world #expression

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you. ↗

— James Van Praagh

#consciousness #exist #ghosts #happen #human-experience