“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.” FeelingsProcessCommunicationActivityIntellectualConsciousContraryRely Author:Michael Polanyi
“On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.” ClassMassConsciousOrganizationContraryOrganizedWorking ClassVanguard Author:Ernest Mandel
“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.” ThinkingMenWayBelieveIdeasResultsConsciousBoundsContraryConfusionSymbolsHypocrisyInsincerity Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928
“No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.” HumansHuman BeingsImpossibleConsciousContrarySabotage Author:Guy Finley
“And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.” GivingBelievePersonsUnderstandingPrinciplesAtheismConsciousDeterminationMiracleMovedContraryCustomsAgnosticism Author:David Hume