C Quotes
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“Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.”
“Consciousness of innocence is an excellent anchor, no doubt. But what good is an anchor after the ship has sunk?”
Source: Buff: A Collie and Other Dog Stories
“Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence”
“Consciousness of our powers augments them.”
“Consciousness of our strength increases it.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world.”
“Consciousness of unconsciousness”
Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.”
“Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.”
Source: The Character of Consciousness
“Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.”
“Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.”
“Consciousness represents the intuitive ability to recognize the universal truths that govern existence, which lurk behind the veil of ignorance. But no one recognizes that he is ignorant until he exposes himself, internally or externally, to the questions that will lead to such recognition.”
“Consciousness says 'I am,' but it is the self that says 'I am this or that.”
Source: Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience
“Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality.”
“Consciousness slipped slowly away, as he watched through gaping roof-holes pinprick stars high up, glistening against a purple sky. He thought of his mother and Dog and the kittens and Cat, as the stars began dropping to the earth like molten bullets, gradually fading away.”
Source: The Ingenious and the Colour of Life
“Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.”
Source: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious
“Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.”
“Consciousness then evolves as a system for memorizing which aspects of the environment are perceptual and which are telecommunication. This is the precise level of evolution that humanity as a species is on, currently; the ability to distinguish memory matter from sensory matter, and by applying recursion, quantifying the difference using dimensional analysis.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.”
“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
Source: Lucky Jim
“Consciousness will always be present, though a particular
consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile
consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when
the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are
influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will
cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will
always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end.”
“Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.”
Source: The Owl was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa and the Repressed Feminine : a Psychological Study
“Consciousness would appear to be everything that, according to the principles of mechanism, matter is not: directed, purposive, essentially rational. The notion that material causes could yield a result so apparently contrary to material nature is paradoxical enough that it ought to give even the most convinced of materialists pause.”
Source: The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
“Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God.”
“Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines”
“Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.”
“Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.”
“Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.”
“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”
“Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and thats such a delicious feeling, but when its unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.”
“Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.”
Source: The Perseids and Other Stories
“Consciousness-Based Education is education that is in most ways exactly like regular education, but with the added technique of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation, or TM as it's often referred to, allows students to dive in and experience the unbounded ocean of consciousness within each of us, the big treasury, the field within each of us that is the base of all matter and all mind. It's been found that transcending and experiencing that unbounded, eternal level of life does wonders for education, and for human beings.”
“Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.”
“Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.”
“Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.”
Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
“Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.”
“Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.”
“Consciousness: That annoying time between naps”
“Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.”
Source: I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
“Conscription has no place in the land of the free.”
“Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.”
“Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.”
“Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits”
“Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.”
“Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.”
“Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.”
“Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!”
“Conseguir parar de fumar é algo parecido com uma vitória olímpica. É uma conquista que honra o vencedor, resgata sua auto-estima, a força e a confiança na razão.”
Source: Cigarro - Um Adeus Possível