Conscious Quotes - Page 34

• Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, People

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.478, Discovery House

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• Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Turns, Tolerate

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.

  E.C. Riegel

  Ignorance, Miscarriage, Responsibility

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• That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.

  John Dewey

  Country, Educational, School

  John Dewey (1984). “The Later Works of John Dewey 1927-1928: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and "Impressions of Soviet Russia"”, p.230, SIU Press

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• As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Should Have, Law

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• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Book, Order, Land

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• Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Two, Duration

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.375, Vintage

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• Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

  Karl Marx

  Exercise, Effort, Growth

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• Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

  Xunzi

  Men, Evil, Goodness

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• I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

  Shepard Fairey

  Pride, Self, Design

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Growing Up, Book

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

  Marc Maron

  Years, Important, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I mean that's something we're very conscious of when writing. Tempos are very important. Like "Oh we can't play the song too fast because people aren't going to feel it." There's a pulse to a song. You can't play it too slow. We're always trying to find the perfect tempo.

  Tony Palermo

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.

  Rama Swami

  Ignorance, Sleep, Wake Up

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• The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.

  Anthony Giddens

  Fashion, Effort, Flow

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• When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?

  Lucy Calkins

  Self, Trying, Littles

  Lucy McCormick Calkins, Lucy Calkins (1991). “Living Between the Lines”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

  Rene Descartes

  Ideas, Mind, Analysis

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• I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Consciousness, My Own, Limitation

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.34, A&C Black

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• Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.

  Leonard Pitts

  Art, Color, Play

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• He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wrinkles, Noses, Stink

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• A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Absurd, Bounds

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven. ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious.

  Joseph Prince

  Godly, Men, Secret

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• My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.

  Karim Rashid

  Real, People, Desire

  "Q&A: Designer Karim Rashid". Express Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. May 3, 2007.

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• The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Facts, Action

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

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• ...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.

  Bhagat Singh

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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