"I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry."
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"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
"By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal."
"The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)"
"The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report."
"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."
"Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species."
"Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious."
"To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness."
"While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious."
"I wasn't really a work conscious type of person."
"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."
"I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!""
"Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise."
"What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate."
"I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to come up and say, "Hi, I'd like to go out with you." Englishmen are far more sheepish about it."
"The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself."
"Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act."
"I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me."
"The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled."