Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty."
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Conscious
388 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious."
Lil B
Rapper
"When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious."
James A. Baldwin
Writer
"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
Carson McCullers
Novelist
"The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer."
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"Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out"
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"The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe."
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"Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it."
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"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."
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"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
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"God is always working through you; the important thing is to become conscious and co-operate."
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"Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy."
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"I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work."
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"I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing."
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"The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life."
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"I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength."
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"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand."
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"Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious."
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"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
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"Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement."
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"The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens."
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"Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche."
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"A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future."
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"Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious."
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"I am very self-conscious a lot of the time."
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