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“Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.”

Evil Existence Consciousness Regard Very Good Absurd Guts Hats Absurdity Non Existence

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”

Matter Science Behinds Consciousness Regard Fundamentals Derivatives

Author:Max Planck

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.”

Matter Consciousness Regard Fundamentals Derivatives

Author:Max Planck

“Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.”

World Understanding Consciousness Doubt Divine Regard Conversion Methodology Abjection

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.”

“Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.”

Knows Men World Found Lines Secret Consciousness Cases Failure Higher Ten Achievement Ideals Regard Nine Envied Happiest Man

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.”

People Stills Past Party Consciousness Military Discipline Demand Survival Ethics Regard Fulfillment Soviet Shortcomings Military Discipline

Author:Filipp Golikov

“A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.”

Ifs Men Common Consciousness Circumstances Equal Office Judgment Conscious Importance Regard Posts Indifferent Conqueror Clerks Disservice Post Office

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“I think a lot of people in my circle are thinking that way or see the movie [Into the Forest] and then really think that way. I think it's hopefully tapping into sort of a consciousness right now in regards to our society's relationship with the environment and our own and our disconnect from it, myself included.”

People Thinking Way Consciousness Environment Right Now Regard Circles Forests Hopefully Our Society Tapping

Author:Ellen Page

“I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no rationality. There is nothing that could make me speak more strongly to this point.”

Speak Consciousness Creativity Regard Individuality Traits Rationality

Author:Murray Bookchin