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“Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.”

Consciousness Ought Tools Protection Technique Unconscious Mechanism Extensions Defence Defence Mechanism

Author:Rollo May

“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.”

Men Humans Matter Human Beings Half Consciousness Regret Ought Habit Conservative Enormous Agents Miserable Habitual Indecision

Author:William James

“In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.”

Years Wells Running Consciousness Ought Household Cleaning Threshold Thorough

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.”

Political Politics Consciousness Ought Honor Touched Conscientiousness Public Money

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.”

Firsts Consciousness Ought Angel Presence Of God

Author:John Vianney