Quotes with conscious

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  • Samuel Butler It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • W. H. Auden It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alan Moore Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Felix E. Schelling Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
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  • Flannery O'Connor Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Carl Andre Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
    Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
    The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010) 38
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Karl Marx Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
    Memoirs (1991)
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Walt Whitman O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Max Weber Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne Our friends are chosen for us by some hidden law of sympathy, and not by our conscious wills.
    Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Robert Redford People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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