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“For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.”

Mind Mean Ideas Feelings Objects Expression Pure Conscious Accepted Meaningless Worthless Conscious Mind

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“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

“So fully am I impressed with the vast importance and necessity of attaining what will be the object of my motion this night, that if, during the almost forty years that I have had the honour of a seat in parliament, I had been so fortunate as to accomplish that, and that only, I should think I had done enough, and could retire from public life with comfort, and the conscious satisfaction, that I had done my duty.”

Source: The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons

“Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.”

“Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.”

Men Body Objects Ought Conscious Delight

Author:Germaine Greer

“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.”

States Moments Spirit Objects Pure Conscious Devotion Innocence Concentration

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”

Book Stories Hands Light Eye Age Left Pleasure Objects Please Fame Glory Conscious Dear Brilliant Wit Treasure Golden Rejoice Volume Sage Delicious Deceived Beam Rapture Musings

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.”

Men Doe Animal Consciousness Objects Activity Conscious Determination Humankind

Book:Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

“There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.”

Source: The Natural History of Religion

“The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.”

“There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.”

Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object

“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.”

Doe Talent Objects Conscious Abundance Abundance And Prosperity

Book:The First Circle

Source: The First Circle

“I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.”

Thinking Said Dies Born My Own Space Identity Objects Particular Arms Conscious Legs Arms And Legs

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”

Ifs Humans May Persons Long Shows Feelings Human Beings Effort One Thing Worst Objects Conscious Affection Refuse Connected Puzzles

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.”

People Should Mind Real Self Moving Consciousness Environment Awareness Objects Conscious Yoga Independent Surroundings Attainment Meditating

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.”

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings