"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness." — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
• My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was… — Dan Aykroyd
• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
• Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
• Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,… — Annie Besant
• The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,… — Annie Besant
• Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one… — Theodor Adorno
• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from… — Steven Biko
• The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make… — Steven Biko
• As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there. — Juliette Binoche
• Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and… — H. P. Blavatsky
• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,… — W. E. B. Du Bois

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