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“When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.”

Thinking Men Way Believe Ideas Results Conscious Bounds Contrary Confusion Symbols Hypocrisy Insincerity

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928

“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.”

Body Past Purpose Steps Class Fashion Training Conscious Bounds Traditional Ballet Tied Expertise Old Days Appreciative Repetitive Elitist Executing

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.”

Men Facts Seems Pay Moral Forever Atheism Conscious Bounds Obvious Positive Atheism Absurd Prey

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.”

Men Conscious Bounds Absurd

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time... The human is that being in whom the Universe activates, reflects upon, and celebrates itself in conscious self-awareness.”

Humans Self Together Universe Community Space Awareness Conscious Self Awareness Unity Bounds Celebrate Related Time And Space Inseparable Interacting Activate

Author:Thomas Berry

“I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.”

War Self Felt Known Arms Conscious Breaths Bounds Betrayal Separation Fallen Isolation Relief Survivor Torment Comrade Surpassing Self Betrayal

Book:Gates Of Fire

Source: Gates Of Fire

“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”