Conscious Quotes - Page 14

• Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

  Paul Valery

  Hero, Men, Criminals

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 58), 1931.

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• Warriors use their intent and will to shape their lives. All of their actions are conscious, intentional, and complete.

  Kerr Cuhulain

  Warrior, Use, Shapes

  Kerr Cuhulain (2000). “Wiccan Warrior: Walking a Spiritual Path in a Sometimes Hostile World”, p.4, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Men, Genius, Rational

  "The basic trends of our times" by Pitirim Sorokin, (p. 39), 1964.

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• Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Philosophy, Character, Mean

  "The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. viii), 1962.

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• Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

  Julian Jaynes

  Expression, Events, Becoming

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.284, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any time a Christian is conscious of his sin, judges the sin and takes sides against it with a penitent heart, then he has a perfect right to trust the Lord for instant, complete forgiveness and for perfect cleansing.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Heart, Perfect

  John R. Rice (1942). “Hindrances to Prayer”, p.32, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Two, Waiting, Answers

  "Blade of Tyshalle" by Matthew Stover, XIV.3, (p. 472), 2001.

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• Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.

  John Carroll

  Strong, Children, Men

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, Degrees, Ugly

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• When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

  Brett Ratner

  Failure, Fearless, Risk

  "Brett Ratner Interview – RUSH HOUR 3". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2007.

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• Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Strong, Sublime, Form

  "The Reconstruction of Humanity" by Pitirim Sorokin, Beacon Press (p. 330), 1948.

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• Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader this evening.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Tonight

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• When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Choices, Able

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• You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Argument, Can Not, Persons

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.182, New World Library

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• All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Law

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• Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Hands, Creating

  Errico Malatesta (1965). “Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas”

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• I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Years, Smell

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• A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, Long

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• Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will not on that account refuse obedience if they see reflected in them the authority of Christ, God and Man. Peace and harmony, too, will result; for with the spread and the universal extension of the kingdom of Christ, men will become more and more conscious of the link that binds them together, and thus many conflicts will either be prevented entirely or at least their bitterness be diminished.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Kings, Men

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• We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Mean, Ideas, Personality

  Gustave Le Bon (1960). “Psychologie des foules”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• We invent mind-space inside our own heads as well as the heads of others ... we assume these 'spaces' without question. They are a part of what it is to be conscious. Moreover, things that in the physical-behavioural world that do not have a spatial quality are made to have such in consciousness. Otherwise we cannot be conscious of them.

  Julian Jaynes

  Space, Mind, Quality

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• For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Process

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• I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Hard Work, Use, Elements

  "Blood Diamond - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I made a big conscious decision in my life when I was writing all these big action movies and doing different kind of fare but very proud of it, I was finding myself less and less passionate about doing it.

  Ric Roman Waugh

  Writing, Decision, Different

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