Conscious

Famous quotes containing the word conscious:

    How oft upon yon eminence our pace
    Has slackened to a pause, and we have borne
    The ruffling wind, scarce conscious that it blew,
    While admiration, feeding at the eye,
    And still unsated, dwelt upon the scene.
    William Cowper (1731–1800)

    The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia’s fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)