“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.” TryingMindHardMomentsSeemsCoursesGivenGoalConsciousnessStrangeGoes OnAccountsWorthyTinyTruthfulRepresentationInstantaneous Author:George Saunders
“I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.” FeelsKindSelfEnjoyConsciousnessAccountsEditingTweetDisappointingSelf ConsciousnessEdited Author:Mira Gonzalez
“I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women. Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great literature and with an inspired teacher.” WellsImportantWarLiteraturePleasureResultsConsciousnessTeacherReflectionAccountsMovedComplexesIslamInspiredMemoirRadicalEncountersStirringOrdealsThoughtfulnessTheocracyRadical IslamGreat Literature Author:Susan Sontag
“The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.” ThinkingNeedsHumansDoeWholeMomentsRealizingConsciousnessFrontsObjectsFitAccountsStructureStereotypeHuman ConsciousnessGreat Moments Author:W. J. T. Mitchell
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” PeopleMenLifeInspirationalNeedsLittlesEarthViewsConsciousnessJourneyTravelAccountsPrejudiceEntrepreneurLifetimeCornersWanderAround The WorldMemorableAcquireBigotryBroadsTime TravelTraveledExploringTravelerPublishersLecturesCarpe DiemTravel WritingCharitableGreat TravelInspiring TravelHumoristsTravel AdventureAdventure And TravelRoad TripSeeing The WorldPhotography And TravelNarrow-mindedInspirational AdventureWant To TravelInspirational Adventure TimeInspirational VacationNarrow MindednessFeet And TravelNarrow MindsTravel BooksDiscovery And Travel Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations