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Consciousness Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
- The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.
- Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
- One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly,…
- A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.
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