“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.” IfsPersonsExistenceConsciousnessNovelSuccessfulTypeAreasOriginalsReports Book:The Golden Notebook Source: The Golden Notebook
“The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.” RealPlayGamesLevelsConsciousnessMysteryDivineInfiniteOriginalsPassingPassingsRealmsFiniteSeemingWhimDescentInfinite Consciousness Author:Meher Baba
“Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.” MindBelieveHumanityI BelieveSinConsciousnessChristianityAchieveCreationDivineOriginalsGuiltFallenRescueInterventionOriginal SinClosed Mind Author:John Shelby Spong
“Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.” ThinkingKnowsMenMindFirstsIdeasCharacterPastScienceConsciousnessDoubtConsciousArmyOriginalsEvery ManDoctrineNativeElephantsSweetnessDrunkennessWhitenessHardness Author:John Locke
“No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.” MayArtMatterSeemsArtistConsciousnessProgressOriginalsRealizationWorks Of ArtConceptionApproximationDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies Between Author:Edgard Varese
“I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at self-consciousness in a much more careful and fine-grained manner, then we might also arrive at a new answer to your original question: What a "first-person perspective" really is.” IfsFirstsBelieveHumansPersonsDifferentSelfMightI BelieveAnswersConsciousnessPerspectiveFineModelsOriginalsCarefulDistinctionLayersTransparencyFirst PersonSelf Consciousness Author:Thomas Metzinger
“But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.” IfsMayDoeScienceRealizingConsciousnessInformationTheoryScientistOriginalsMethodRateConclusionBeing TrueGreekPhysicistPhonyScientific MethodConnotation Author:Anthony Standen