#consciousness

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#another #believe #clear #common #common faith

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#form #really #self-consciousness

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

— Jasper Johns

#fragment #intention #involves #life #mind

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#consciousness #leaves #living #only #own

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#anyone #art #artist #bad #consciousness

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#consciousness #god #hid #human #human nature

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

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ↗

— David Mitchell

#equality #hatred #justice #perception #racism

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. ↗

— Les Brown

#comfort zone #consciousness #expand #forced #outside

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. ↗

— David Chalmers

#become #closely #consciousness #going #i