Best conscious & impossible Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.”

Thinking Firsts Consciousness Impossible Buddhism Conscious Negative Roots Purity Vague Negative Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.”

Kind Stills Order Process Imagination Struggle Impossible Events Objects Degrees Conscious Former Primaries Operations Fixed Agency Echoes Identical

Book:Biographia Literaria: Top Biography

Source: Biographia Literaria: Top Biography

“We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.”

“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

“All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.”

“One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone”

Ifs Heart Would Be Moving Language Growth Sin Forget Grace Progress Impossible Conscious Notes Saint Lovely Gracious Sanctity Unawareness

Author:Bill Vaughan

“What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."”

Thinking Want Character Speak Decision Roles Impossible Models Conscious Flaws Role Models Defects Positive Things Positive Role Model Defects Of Character

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Your Conscious desires and your Subconscious intention must be in alignment. If your Conscious Mind wants one thing and your Subconscious Mind wants something else (counter-intention) it is impossible to create what you truly want.”

Ifs Want Mind Desire Impossible One Thing Conscious Intention Subconscious Want Something Alignment Subconscious Mind Conscious Mind

Author:Robert Anthony

“I like to get something that is impossible to verbally order. Sometimes it's something the person is not even conscious of, and it's something you could never ask of them specifically. It's just there.”

Persons Sometimes Order Asks Impossible Conscious

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.”

Should Dream Imagination Impossible Creation Pure Conscious Should Have Mark Silly Perceive Insanity Makers Freak

Book:The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

Source: The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

“When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural.”

Way Trying Two Self Helping Together Natural Behinds Talking Impossible Conscious Shots Cameras Colleagues Self Conscious Singles

Author:Tom Courtenay

“It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).”

Mind Different States Pain Impossible Involved Conscious Claims Assuming Painful Metaphysical Ruling Thesis

Author:Elliott Sober

“I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to see my work that way, as reclaiming a preserve. I write in a way that is aimed at all levels - conscious and unconscious - at pleasing the kind of reader I am. Some of the authors I read are male, some are female, and some are even in between. And speaking of in between, maybe now is as good a moment as any to point out that there might be no "feminine" or "masculine" literary sensibility, or sensibility generally.”

Thinking Writing Kind Moments Impossible Conscious Female Unconscious Feminine Sensibility Masculine

Author:Rachel Kushner

“Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.”

Humans Culture Impossible Habit Conscious Constant Evolve Categories Interaction

Book:The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”

Ifs Years Doe Real Ends Sometimes Pain Lasts Beautiful Turns Memories Dark Situation Forever Impossible Lovers Conscious Partners Unconscious Concealed Hindsight Stay True Happy Marriage

Author:Bernhard Schlink

“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 Forever Impossible Events Standards Conscious Machines Dancing Genuine Ghost Predictable Phantoms

Author:Alan Moore

“I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.”

World Way Want Long Said Dream Faces Understanding Loss Impossible Listening Conscious Finished Arguing Dialogue Impulse I Want You Pauses Irresistible Seeming Intervals

Book:Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.”

“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.”

Feelings Pay Impossible Gratitude Elements Conscious Debt Pursuit Acknowledge Felicity Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Josef Pieper

“No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.”

Humans Human Beings Impossible Conscious Contrary Sabotage

Author:Guy Finley

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.”

Knows Believe Two Use Lying Party Opinion Knowing Democracy Impossible Honesty Morality Integrity Conscious Logic Claims Citizenship Guardian

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

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