#consciousness

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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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#chaos #consciousness #like #more #more and more

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#get #having #high #higher #hopes

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 was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#consciousness #different #i #i was born #many

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it. ↗

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#depends #exertions #girl #his #how

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ↗

— John Sterling

#instinct #intelligence #self-consciousness

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. ↗

— John Sterling

#joy #life #noble #own #pain

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else. ↗

— James Taylor

#between #connection #consciousness #else #feel

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#aspects #being #brings #broadened #consciousness