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“The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.”

Humans Felt Effort Consciousness Limits Finals Obscure Pretension Human Knowledge

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.”

Knows Writing Littles Felt Dark White Consciousness Known Sea Creating Fearless Beach Sand Hopeful Insecure Launching White Sand

Book:Notebooks, 1960-1977

Source: Notebooks, 1960-1977

“value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.”

Matter Values Felt Consciousness Nothing Matters

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.”

Important Moments Reality Past Culture Felt Realizing Memories Consciousness Illusion Expectations Present Moment Illusion Of Time

Author:Alan Watts

“When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.”

Purpose Felt Consciousness Successful Fans Changed Pressure Intention

Author:Lady Gaga

“In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.”

Long Problem Light School Faces Girl Felt Black Consciousness Hair Periods Grammar Grammar School Black Consciousness

Author:Whitney Houston

“I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.”

“Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what if it was consciousness and dream production? And that would allow us to have characters that represent emotions. And that felt like, man, that's exactly what animation does best - strong, opinionated, caricatured personalities. And that just got me excited.”

Ifs Men Mind Wells Doe Character Dream Strong Felt Emotion Brain Consciousness Blood Personality Productions Excited What If Vessel Animation Opinionated Blood Vessels

Author:Pete Docter

“Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in which profound struggles about identity and direction arise - struggles that Mann himself had not only reflected on but felt keenly. Visconti takes up this central focus of the novella, but he couples it with a more social perspective.”

Thinking Kind Age Individual Social Felt Consciousness Struggle Focus Identity Perspective Couple Profound Arise Portraits

Author:Philip Kitcher