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“If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.”

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Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.”

Source: The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed

“But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“The goal is to know how not-to-know.”

Knows Goal Consciousness Knowledge Know How

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.”

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Book:Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

Source: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

“Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.”

“I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.”

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Author:Rudolf Virchow

“The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.”

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Book:Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays

Source: Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays

“Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?”

Ifs Should Mind Interest Can Do Consciousness Knowledge Imagine Prove Stones

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.”