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"The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness."
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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."

"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."

"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."

"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."

"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."

"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."

"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."

"There's no consciousness without senses and memories."
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"We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance."


"The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes."


"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world."


"Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life."


"In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena."


"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis."


"Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions."


"From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large."


"Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness."


"In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments."
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