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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."
"Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche."
"A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future."
"Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious."
"I am very self-conscious a lot of the time."
"People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it."
"Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being."
"A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence."
"There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings."
"Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself."
"We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves."
"When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore."
"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."
"She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself"
"My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life."
"You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them."
"Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision."
"A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]"
"I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose."
"The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not."
