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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.”

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Author:Kazimir Malevich

“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

“All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.”

Men Doe Soul Matter Running Water Known Clear Sweet Flower Wall Genius Pure Degrees Conscious Rivers Wilderness Be A Man Running Water

Book:The Stones of Venice...

Source: The Stones of Venice...

“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.”

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Author:Kenny Smith

“... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.”

Kind Pure Conscious Dance Dancer Incapable Formal Trance Formality

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.”

Knows Men Mind Firsts Two Running Natural Knowledge Ignorance Birth Pure Conscious Extremes Self Knowledge Back Again Great Minds Two Extremes

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence.”

Book:Freedom and Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe

Source: Freedom and Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe

“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 words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having a meaning or intellectual value. They set activity running in a given groove, but there is no accompanying conscious purpose or meaning.”

Running Purpose Values Given Situation Pure Activity Intellectual Conscious Factors Stimulus Groove

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I would say most of the time this is less about a conscious attempt to manipulate an outcome, and more about pure ineptitude.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”

“The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.”

Source: The Fountainhead

“Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.”

“Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.”

Goal Pure Conscious Golf Instinct Finals Swings Athletic

Author:David Leadbetter