“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.” FeelingsProcessCommunicationActivityIntellectualConsciousContraryRely Author:Michael Polanyi
“There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.” IfsYearsMomentsFeelingsUsedRoomsTeacherConsciousYears AgoShoesPhrasesOld ManProfessorsMentorUsing MeEerieMouthpieceTrotting Author:Abraham Verghese
“Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.” ArtFeelingsMightConsciousGuidesEnthusiasm Author:Alain de Botton
“For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.” MindMeanIdeasFeelingsObjectsExpressionPureConsciousAcceptedMeaninglessWorthlessConscious Mind Author:Kazimir Malevich
“Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.” MenBelieveFeelingsEarthSpiritualSpiritDesirePerfectDevelopmentOughtConsciousUniversalInfiniteStriveEvery ManEngagedDivinityReach OutStrifeGreat WorkSpiritual PeaceOnward And Upward Author:David
“The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?” DoeFeelingsIssuesRightsKeysConsciousDeserveArtificial IntelligenceEntity Author:Ray Kurzweil
“At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble.” FeelingsLastsOne DayPerceptionMessagesConsciousPassionateNobleLoyaltySubstanceNationalismAlliesTheologicalPrimalAntagonistDross Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.” IfsFeelingsFormArtistFitActivityConsciousStrongerPreparedEngagedSincereModeratesCorrespondingBeing Sincere Author:Herbert Read
“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.” MindSelfFeelingsOrderCultureVoiceLossStageCreationDivineProductsReturnTruth IsConsciousDirectAbsolutesResponsibleDebateJudgementReverseInwardMachineryGermsPrerequisites Author:Julian Jaynes
“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.” IfsThinkingMindBelieveEndsFeelingsAbleFormDesireAttentionClearDoubtConsciousTrainIncludingSentencesObjectivesSensationsProvokingDiscourseFleetingInvolvingDotsConscious MindMaelstrom Author:Peter J. Carroll
“We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.” MeanIdeasFeelingsIndividualAtheismPersonalityConsciousCrowdsPositive AtheismTendenciesCharacteristicsUnconsciousPrincipalSuggestionsIdenticalDisappearanceContagion Book:Psychologie des foules Source: Psychologie des foules
“The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.” MenFeelsFeelingsDifferencesDogConsciousLovelyDelicateDelicacyCoarse Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.” MayStatesFeelingsTogetherPoetryWrittenProduceEmotionalPoetTheorySpringConsciousForgottenCurrentsBurdenStormCombinationSubconsciousThunderElectricalThoughts And FeelingsIrritationComing Together Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
“My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingSelfFeelingsBitsConsciousCriticizeLeapSelf ConsciousLeap Of Faith Author:Conor Oberst