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“Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.”

World Should Wells Kind Self Certain Existence Consciousness Strange Perspective Please Following Deny Destroyed Explanation Rivals Identifying Existence Of God

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.”

Wells Mean Would Be Happiness Consciousness Conviction Deny Approval Worldly

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.”

Opportunity Grows Consciousness Teacher Deny Primaries

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")”

Looks Mean Action Sides Consciousness Disease Madness Appearance Deny Violent Cures Immortality Look Up Endeavor Escaping

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.”

Source: On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

“Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their intuition accordingly will sooner or later find themselves at a dead end.”

Ends Process Consciousness Failing Creation Divine Deny Intuition Sooner Or Later Dead Ends

Book:The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness

Source: The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness

“I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.”

Ifs Knows Feels Believe Doe Facts Mother Sin Half Consciousness Hell Modern Finals Deny God Love God Loves Me

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures to deny the rights of the individual instead of reconciling the rights of the individual with the collective, I would definitely stand completely on the side of the individualist who is trying to rescue above all that most precious thing that makes us human - consciousness and personality.”

Ifs Way Trying Humans Names Individual Sides Consciousness Rights Personality Unity Population Deny Libertarian Communism Collectives Rescue Human Consciousness Precious Things

Author:Murray Bookchin

“A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.”

Consciousness Species Deny Dislike Butterfly Cockroaches

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.”

Humans House Perfect Consciousness Blood Flow Deny Defense Triumph Lightning Submission Hurricanes Frail Eros

Author:Joyce Carol Oates