“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.” WayDoeArtWholePainTogetherLeftDifficultConsciousnessTakenExpressionShapesUniqueSentencesTerritoryPropositionsLeft AloneLeft OutTogether AgainIncomprehension Author:Jacques Barzun
“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.” SoulEndsFeelingsMightSpiritDifficultConsciousnessHigherPureEgoConsciousFunctionInfiniteStructureSensesPreservesSublimeReducingAbolishImmediacy Author:Kenny Smith
“As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.” KnowsLittlesPersonsCountryDoneDifficultConsciousnessColorPoetPrideProudExcellentSuperiority Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.” ThinkingWould BeRunningDifficultMemoriesBrainConsciousnessComputerProgramCeaseTurned OffNeural Networks Author:Stephen Hawking
“I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsRealDoneProblemFilmActorsStrongDifficultMemoriesConsciousnessVery StrongTrickyOur MemoriesReal ProblemsImpersonatePollock Author:Peter Webber
“When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.” DifficultConsciousnessTolerateHonoredKrishna Author:Radhanath Swami
“When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.” NeedsShouldMomentsUsedIndividualDifficultConsciousnessReturnMachinesTreatsTablesSpeciesKingdomsPhrasesAspirationKingdom Of GodSurgeonsLike Love Author:George Pattison
“We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?” PeopleWorldWantNeedsTryingMayRealWholeStuffDifficultConsciousnessVisionHonestBalanceProjectsExperimentsReal WorldEngagementUtopiaAdvancingNeeds And WantsSchemas Author:Gar Alperovitz
“Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here is an enormously complex notion of both consciousness and unconsciousness. That's why these models get very difficult, because you can't reduce our subjective and intersubjective experience to neural reductions.” PeopleDifficultBrainConsciousnessEnvironmentRelationNervous Author:Siri Hustvedt
“No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really specific. He lets parts of his consciousness in that most writers aren't able to do, myself included. I don't feel like I have that access to the surreal and the somehow beautifully meaningful non-sequitur - that fits perfectly. I can never figure that out, how he does that.” WritingDifficultConsciousnessFitMeaningfulCompareAbstractSurreal Author:John K. Samson
“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.” MenMadeSoulYoungWishDifficultConsciousnessKnowingTasksGentlemanDifficult TasksYoung Gentlemen Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)