“What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!” FeelsHumansLooksSelfSometimesMightAsksStrongHuman BeingsAbilityAwarenessDogPlanetsElementsConsciousCatClaimsSelf AwarenessBlessedImpressionVery StrongMonkeysLook At MeOur PlanetApesZoos Author:Roger Penrose
“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.” MeanIdeasPhilosophyCharacterTermParticularElementsConsciousNotionInstanceEnjoyedLogicalInterpretationSchemesEndeavour Author:Charles Hartshorne
“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.” InspirationalYearsElementsConsciousSmellLos Angeles Author:Christopher Lee
“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.” UseHard WorkElementsConsciousHarderWork Harder Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.” TwoSimpleSuccessfulElementsEatingConsciousTablesCookingPreparedStrangerWelcomeMealsGuestsGatheringFamily Friends Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.” IfsRealityArtistProcessNaturalAbilityCreativityCreativePossibilityPaintingSucceedElementsCreatingConsciousIndependentCreative ProcessTransformingHintsNatural Phenomena Author:Frantisek Kupka
“Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.” MenExistenceFateElementsConsciousAbsurditySymbolicNauseaWoodlandOpheliaAwfulness Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.” IfsWorldSaidShowsFeelingsPainCoursesSoundExistenceSubjectsAwarenessColorColdElementsPerceptionConsciousPhilosopherHeatAdagesSensoryConscious AwarenessBerkeleyHeat And Cold Author:Zeno Vendler
“It is important to be conscious of the message that you're putting out there. It takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a movie to the screen. I do feel a certain element of responsibility to say something worth saying with it, as well as entertainment.” FeelsWellsImportantCertainResponsibilityBloodTearsElementsMessagesConsciousEntertainmentScreensSweatSweat And TearsBlood Sweat And Tears Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar elements with XXY. It was just after I was done writing that I noticed it. I think both teenagers in each film have many similarities, and Mengele is the extreme version of the plastic surgeon in XXY. Both stories definitely have several ideas connecting them.” ThinkingWritingFirstsIdeasDoneStoriesFilmElementsConsciousExtremesVersionsTeenagerPlasticConnectingSurgeonsSimilarityPlastic Surgeons Author:Lucia Puenzo
“There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.” WorldMindFirstsSelfRealityCertainReadyElementsConsciousDiscoveryDirectHarmonyBreathsAssumingUnityInstinctDeeperCommandAnalysisMasteryAccurateMagneticConscious MindComplicityMating Book:The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit Source: The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit
“Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.” LawLove IsBalanceElementsConsciousAnd LoveErrorsDestructiveWithout Love Author:Samael Aun Weor
“What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.” PeopleMindFirstsHumansRealRealityGivenInterestingFashionExampleElementsModelsConsciousIndependentFeaturesMost InterestingPhenomenalOpaqueRealness Author:Thomas Metzinger
“No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.” FeelingsPayImpossibleGratitudeElementsConsciousDebtPursuitAcknowledgeFelicityDebt Of Gratitude Author:Josef Pieper