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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Consciousness

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
The ego is not master in its own house.
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.


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