“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
“There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.” NeedsWritingHas BeensDifferentWantedYoungAbilityTalentConsciousNotionPeculiarTalents And Abilities Author:Patricia Wentworth
“My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.” StatesConsciousNotion Author:Philip Levine
“Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.” PeopleIfsKnowsChristianJesusInfluenceProduceConsciousNotionCeaseChristian LifeCharacteristicsCommonplaceLovelinessImplicit Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.” ShouldPersonsArtMadeMatterLawLibertySubjectsConsciousShould HaveNotionPhysicsBiologyOrganismsLaws Of Physics Author:W. H. Auden
“The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I think, comes very close to what we traditionally mean by notions like "subjectivity".” ThinkingWorldTryingMeanIndividualModelsConsciousRelationNotionOneselfEntitySubjectivity Author:Thomas Metzinger
“I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.” ShouldSoulIndividualWishAtheismTypeCreaturesConsciousRewardsNotionAtheistAbsurdComprehensionEgoism Book:The World As I See It Source: The World As I See It