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“It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.”

Strong Emotion Doubt Possibility Conscious Impression Suspects Horizon Self-examination

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.”

Existence Doubt Atheism Conscious Denial Existence Of God

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.”

“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.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Firsts Ideas Character Past Science Consciousness Doubt Conscious Army Originals Every Man Doctrine Native Elephants Sweetness Drunkenness Whiteness Hardness

Author:John Locke

“If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.”

Ifs Mind States Next Doubt Conscious And Off Synchronicity Alertness

Book:The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight

Source: The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight

“There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.”

Would Be Pleasure Principles Doubt Ego Conscious Resistance Liberation No Doubt Unconscious Repressed Conscious And Unconscious

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.”

Should Sometimes Doubt Our Lives Happenings Conscious Importance Unconscious Significance Woe

Book:The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Certain Voice Doubt Conscious Cosmology

Author:Stephen Malkmus