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“This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.”

Men Doe Said Action Law Causes Plans Effects Design Position Equal Conscious Universal Eternity Harmony Originals Karma Unconscious Adjustment Resumes

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.”

Mean Ends Sides Effects Painting Paper Conscious Embrace Mere Paint Strive Technique Expressive Means To An End Mannerisms

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.”

Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Problem Know How Effects Conscious Advantage Solve Unconscious Adaptation Gadgets

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.”

Long Enough Certain Memories Consciousness Achieve Effects Behavior Conscious Resources Typical Persevere Cerebral

Book:Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

Source: Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

“Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.”

Littles Growth Effort Effects Exercise Conscious Organisms

Author:Karl Marx

“When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?”

Trying Littles Self Hard Facts Young Results Effects Glory Conscious Self Conscious Young Writers

Book:Living Between the Lines

Source: Living Between the Lines

“Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which the resonance of the words he chose struck him as exactly right (even though he didn't probe to discover exactly what tone or narrative device gave them that effect).”

Different Effects Perspective Conscious Plenty Narrative Tone Devices Passages Resonance Different Perspective Adopting

Author:Philip Kitcher

“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.”

Ifs Believe Humans Wells May Has Beens Made Young Values Humanity Realizing Effects Lessons Conscious Ultimate Institutions Dealings

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.”

Mind Persons Ideas Real Certain Causes Quality Effects Conscious Appreciate Impress

Book:The Optimist Creed

Source: The Optimist Creed