Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Consciousness
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Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.
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Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.
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The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.
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We bless and curse ourselves.
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