“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.” ThinkingKindAgeIndividualSocialFeltConsciousnessStruggleFocusIdentityPerspectiveCoupleProfoundArisePortraits Author:Philip Kitcher
“The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.” PeopleKindSelfMomentsHappensEyeLossConsciousnessLosingAll KindsGorgeousSelf Consciousness Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but I think it's kind of good. I wouldn't say they're all stream of consciousness, but they're not necessarily overwrought.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindConsciousnessAmountArguingStreamsVagueStream Of Consciousness Author:Jack Tatum
“I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.” KindPlayCharacterConsciousnessVillainShockedBrooding Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.” WorldKindDifferentStatesHumanityConsciousnessOptimisticDifferent KindsStates Of Consciousness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there's been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.” ThinkingKindSelfConsciousnessMovementEmpowermentStandingDecadesRecoverySelf EmpowermentSleepyResurgence Author:Bonnie Raitt
“[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.” KindPersonsBookTodayProcessConsciousnessAliveTypeCoupleDecadesEssaysCommentaryAnecdotesThought Process Author:Scott McClanahan
“I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.” WorldKindDifferentSelfCertainConsciousnessInsecuritySelf ConsciousnessDifferent Times Author:Charlie Kaufman
“There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.” IfsLooksKindStillsDifferentLightConsciousnessPaintingDifferent ThingsDifferent KindsImpressionists Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.” ThinkingKindSpiritualEnergyGrowthPrayerConsciousnessPracticeMeditationHigherSpiritual GrowthAffirmationMaintenanceDaily Spiritual Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all the trouble of evolving monkeys that don't run very well or climb very fast or have particularly sharp teeth, but have big heads.” NeedsWellsKindBigsRunningNumbersConsciousnessTroubleTeethEvolveBotherClimbsMonkeysWhy BotherBig Heads Author:Jerry Garcia
“A lot of people have come to Krishna consciousness through prasadam. I mean, this process is the only kind of yoga that you can actually practice by eating.” PeopleKindMeanProcessConsciousnessPracticeEatingYogaKrishna Author:Mukunda Goswami
“I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.” ThinkingKindChildrenProblemSpeakConsciousnessStruggleFeminismHusbandSickBasesIllTherapyPoisonCollectivesPermitComplaintsResentfulDepressiveCollective ConsciousnessIll Tempered Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.” PeopleHumansKindNationsConsciousnessSupportGroupsShareConditionsHealTherapyFascismDeniedHuman ConditionRepressionPsychologistRationalismUnderworldMilieuSupport Groups Author:Adrienne Rich
“LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents. It is one kind of thing if you have a pain-relieving substance or some euphoriant and (another to) have an agent that engages the very essence of human beings, their consciousness.” IfsShouldHumansKindDifferentPainHuman BeingsConsciousnessDrugEssenceSacredTreatedAgentsPreparationSubstanceDifferent KindsCorrespondingLsd Author:Albert Hofmann
“My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between the different eras of his life always crushed my brain on some level. That this guy who was shoveling carob chips out of a barrel and restocking yogurt popsicles could also have those numbers on his arm. It was an inconceivable juxtaposition. His experience was the main window for our family into any kind of social consciousness, or sense of history, or politics, even though a lot of it went unsaid.” KindDifferentGuyBrainConsciousnessWindowMy FamilyOur FamilySurvivorHolocaustGrandfatherCrushedMy GrandfatherDichotomy Author:Jonathan Raymond
“I wonder what kind of environmental consciousness is to be developed in a family or a community where nature is seen as either an optional thing, not accessible to you, or something completely exotic, unwelcome.” KindCommunityConsciousnessWonderEnvironmental Author:Kyo Maclear
“We're still really in catch-up mode in terms of alerting people to the risks of social media, to the kind of consciousness that you need to have when you do publish something. It used to be such a deliberate and elaborate process to get to publication with many steps and phases and editors and you know, now it's instantaneous and it's wonderful, you know, the immediacy and the power of that but it also can be dangerous.” PeopleKindTermConsciousnessWonderfulRiskDangerousSocial MediaPublish Author:Suzanne Nossel
“It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and change their consciousness. He wanted to reach the "working classes" in England. The kind of music he was making was very much from the academy, even though it had a lot in common with things like free jazz and improvisation, and he felt that it was the music of the elite, and that he wasn't really speaking to the people.” PeopleKindInterestingCommonConsciousnessJazzAcademicWorking ClassVery InterestingImprovisation Author:Alasdair MacLean
“I just try to bring a kind of consciousness to the work I'm doing. I'll worry about the next job when I have the next job. There are a lot worse things than being known for a certain kind of specificity. You'll get calls for that thing. And that's better than not getting any calls at all.” TryingKindConsciousnessWorry Author:Paul Marcarelli
“I think that things like curses or whatever - those labels - come from belief systems, universal belief systems. So when you get a global consciousness of something, then that becomes a quote-unquote "truth" for everybody. You know, "This is what happens in the Kennedy family." "This is what happens with the Hemingways." And the more people believe in it, the more it kind of resuscitates the problem; it keeps bringing life to this idea that a curse exists that you can never get out from under.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindProblemBeliefConsciousnessCurse Author:Mariel Hemingway
“It's always an interesting question of what was it like as Norman Mailer's son because I could easily turn it back and say what's it like not to. I didn't always realize my dad was Norman Mailer. I always knew he was Dad, and then I forget the exact age when it dawned on me that, you know, he is actually someone who affects the public consciousness of the time. It was amazing. I mean he was a rock star and brilliant and kind and funny and generous and scary when he needed to be and, you know, hard as a father.” KindMeanAgeFatherRealizingForgetInterestingConsciousnessSonDadMy DadScaryBrilliantGenerousRock Star Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.” WellsKindSelfConsciousnessFoolishJournalInteriorsSubjectiveNurturingSelf ConsciousnessMorbid Author:Lucy Larcom
“Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.” KindUniverseConsciousnessPerceptionConsciousKingdomsPlanesAeroplanes Book:The Secret Doctrine Source: The Secret Doctrine
“I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.” KindConsciousnessJournalismPrint Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” InspirationalHumansKindPersonsPhilosophyWholeFeelingsSpiritualDesireHumanityUniverseNatureHuman BeingsSpaceConsciousnessCompassionBeautyHumilityCreaturesAll ThingsTasksEmbracePrisonMental HealthAffectionCirclesDelusionVeganAnimal RightsEcologyTime And SpaceLiving ThingsVegetarianismInsperationalRelativitySelf ConsciousnessSelf CompassionLiving CreaturesThoughts And FeelingsNature BeautyHuman ConsciousnessHuman ThoughtSave Mother EarthHumans And AnimalsHuman ConnectionHuman ActionsSpace TimeAnimal CompassionSpiritual NatureNature And BeautyCommon HumanityOne With NatureAnimals In NatureKindness To AnimalsLimited TimeNature And AnimalsHuman CompassionModern PhysicsPersonal FeelingsThinking GodPersonal DesireLiving RightPersonal ConnectionGod NatureLiving RealityNature RelatedParts Of A WholeKind ThoughtsKind PersonCaring And CompassionEarth Community Author:Albert Einstein
“Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.” KindMeanEndsFeelingsFightingNaturalChurchConsciousnessEnemyInfluenceMassConceptsSexualityRegulationDogmaMysticalLife Means Author:Wilhelm Reich