Conscious

Famous quotes containing the word conscious:

“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)

“The mind that’s conscious of its rectitude,
Laughs at the lies of rumor.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)