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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Antithesis Around Being Consciousness Determines Ever False May Other Philosophy Question School Solved Way Whether

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Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

~Chrysippus

Topics: Animal Consciousness Constitution Every Own Related

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I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Awakening Bar Bar Mitzvah Beginning Chose Consciousness Fall Friend Genesis Going Grace He Human Means Mitzvah Perfection Remember Right Son Text Which I Remember

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Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.

~Clara Zetkin

Topics: Awaken Class Consciousness General Great Importance Incorporate Indeed Main Movement Must Proletarian Propaganda Questions Struggle Task Them Those Touch Which Women

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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

~Clifford D. Simak

Topics: Consciousness Intelligence Lack Meaning Universe Without Would

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Advance Almost Anthropology Become Been Consciousness Every Extraordinary Field Gender History Intellectual Involved Literature Science

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I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Attempt Aware Concerns Consciousness Gender Now People Raise Succeeded Think Very

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'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

~Clint Smith

Topics: American Appeasement Candor Consciousness His History Like Much Over Political Talk Teachers Work

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If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

~Colm Meaney

Topics: Amount Character Consciousness Effort Got Historical Huge Huge Amount Kind Like Look Make Obviously Person Playing Public Record Then You

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It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Acting Being Consciousness Enter Greater Me More My Own New Other Own Possessed Precisely Some Something Spirit Switch Task Though Vital Were Within

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