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“It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.”

Ifs Humans Self Would Be Consciousness Attitude Growing Tradition Relation Assuming Critical Foolish Despise Human Relations Self Consciousness Change For The Better

Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.”

Firsts May Soul Would Be Turns Belief Consciousness Influence Modern Effects Holy Jew Impossibility Treason Millennials Up To Date Holy God

Book:There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

“I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.”

People World Feels Has Beens Done Seems Would Be Consciousness Amount Murder Vanity Oppressed Diminish Weariness Tedium

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914

“If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Force Dark Half Consciousness Watches Fantasy Wise Leaving Driving Unconscious Within You Being Wise

Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.”

“My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as, "Be still and know that I am God." God is the "I am" energy. Something huge is at play here - cosmic creativity, consciousness, God, whatever you want to call it. I do believe that it's a guided ride. We're on a guided tour of the universe.”

Knows Want Believe Stills Play Would Be Universe Energy Understanding Consciousness Creativity Huge Tradition Cosmic Biblical

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more than mere possibilities. Such a consciousness is measurably, quantitatively different from one that has not undertaken the same work and so, yes, is able to make correct decisions in an Emergence where an untrained mind would be of little use.”

Thinking Mind Littles Different Use Would Be Able Decision Consciousness Possibility Discipline Connections Mere Outcomes Emergence

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.”

“The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.”

Thinking Mind Has Beens Body Would Be Together Consciousness Atheism Survival Argument Weak Bases Destroyed Immortality Persist Interconnection

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.”

Wells Mean Would Be Happiness Consciousness Conviction Deny Approval Worldly

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.”

World Light Would Be Differences Consciousness Higher Diversity Unity Definitions Collectives Midst Appreciated Peace And Love Collective Consciousness Happiness Love

Author:David Lynch

“Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.”

Ifs Whole Would Be Consciousness Moral Too Much Failing Risk Evolution Higher Appreciate Disappear Improvement Remedy Civilisation Torches Bankruptcy Higher Consciousness

Author:African Spir

“Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.”

Self Feelings Body Would Be Certain Consciousness Representation Stimulus Reacting Unthinkable

Author:Antonio Damasio

“It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would regenerate and produce some other life form. Consciousness would flow into some other life form and express itself through that, whatever that would be.”

Humans Would Be Able Form Consciousness Produce Planets Flow Human Life

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.”

Thinking Should Wells Would Be Action Next Consciousness Manners Good Actions Epithet

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.”

Thinking Would Be Running Difficult Memories Brain Consciousness Computer Program Cease Turned Off Neural Networks

Author:Stephen Hawking

“When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.”

Thinking Knows Mind Said Ends Would Be Speak Space Emotion Consciousness Identity Perception Enlightenment Enlightened Sense Perception

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.”

Knows Soul States Would Be Values Consciousness Quality Moral Argument Karma Practicals This Life Preserves Immortality Remembrance Demonstrating Chastisement Recompense

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'”

Men Should Heart Mean Hands Would Be Lasts Poor Brain Consciousness Rich Conditions Masters Sick Workers Affair Harm Socialism Manage Idle Commonwealth Realisation

Author:William Morris

“After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.”

Soul Self Would Be Spiritual Consciousness Subjects Identity Personality Remains After Death Self Consciousness Personal Identity Spiritual Death

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

“If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery of consciousness) that I feel affect me most in my life and think about most of the time. Another reason is that it doesn't seem specific or accurate, to me, to write about "being [abstraction]." I think there are some other reasons.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Reason Seems Would Be Universe Consciousness Issues Mystery Accurate Existential Abstraction Arbitrary Limited Time

Author:Tao Lin

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