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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Consciousness

"It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us."

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Jacques Derrida Philosopher, Linguist
Consciousness

"But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
Consciousness

"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Consciousness

"Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Consciousness

"A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about."

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Consciousness

"That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world."

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