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  All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Max Planck

  Inspirational, Science, Intelligent

  "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, April 16, 2008.

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• Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

  Theodor Adorno

  Differences, Discrimination, Deviation

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.37, Verso

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• At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.

  Lynne McTaggart

  People, Deep Thought, Pulse

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

  Stanislav Grof

  Time, Space, Psychology

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• The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Mind, Important, Action

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• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Psychology, Mind

  Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations Leonard Louis Levinson

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• Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Arise, Extensions

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• You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.

  Bobby Darin

  Sexy, Self, Physiognomy

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• We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

  Kanye West

  Song, Self, Firsts

  Song: Self-Conscious

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• If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Ministers

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 28, 2013

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• We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

  Vernon Howard

  Perception, Conflict

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• To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

  William James

  Mean, Awareness, Known

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

  Plautus

  Men, Mind, Guilt

  "Mostellaria". Play by Plautus, Act III. 1. 13,

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• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Real, Thinking, Awareness

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• You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  Gene Wolfe

  Thinking, Evil, Genuine

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• I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Thinking, Facts

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• Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

  Lionel Trilling

  Swimming, Wind, Judaism

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• My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movement, Painting, Film

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• I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

  Wilfred Owen

  Reading, Thinking, Vagueness

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.410, Delphi Classics

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• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Singing, Ears, Ability

  "Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments". Essay by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, en.wikiquote.org. 1753.

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• Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Tree, Facts, Scientist

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• I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

  Richard Thompson

  Effort

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• Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Air, Breathe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

  Terence Fisher

  Sex, Thinking, Black

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