This consciousness is a most exquisite happiness to a true artist: it is a better stimulus than all the flattering criticism in the world can give.

All consciousness and physical force are but "the varied God."

Hence the Hegelian principles, that the absolute is self-consciousness, that in man God knows himself, must be reversed: self-consciousness is the absolute; in his God man knows himself only.

Consciousness is the sole condition of the self, or personal identity.

This consciousness of having been wronged is not a race-prejudice, and yet it may become one.

This consciousness is the strongest force in him, so that at times he is almost submerged by it, and he loses the sense of outward things.

But in a very short time the blessed numbness was gone, and consciousness became once more a torture, the medium of terrors not to be borne.

The consciousness of an impression is, therefore, the essential element of a sensation.

In our cognition of God he is at once knower and known; our being and all being is a being known by him; our self-consciousness is a consciousness of being known by God: cogitor, ergo cogito et sum; my being and thinking are based on my being thought by God.

So while man is the most perfect earthly being, yet, with regard to spiritual development he has returned to a first stage and "must raise himself through ascending degrees of consciousness" to heights as yet unknown, "for who has measured the limits of God-born mankind?" Self-consciousness is the special characteristic of man.

As we have seen, the metaphysical view which Green arrives at is that the consciousness which is in man and which raises him above nature is the manifestation ofthe "reproduction" of itself byan eternal self-consciousness.

Those who desire virtue for its own sake, desire it either because the consciousness of it is a pleasure, or because the consciousness of being without it is a pain, or for both reasons united; as in truth the pleasure and pain seldom exist separately, but almost always together, the same person feeling pleasure in the degree of virtue attained, and pain in not having attained more.

A new consciousness is not a renewal of consciousness.

But the consciousness that she must not lift her weight from the artery was a centering idea to keep her faculties in some sort of equilibrium.

" Nevertheless mental phenomena and bodily phenomena are not identical, consciousness is not motion.

Consequently consciousness, will, understanding, and sensuous representation (imaginatio), together with corporeality, are our fundamental concepts.

That consciousness is essentially hallucination.

But hypnotic experiment makes it certain that a patient, in the hypnotic condition, can consciously, or at least purposefully, affect physiological processes to which the ordinary consciousness is blindfor example, by raising a blister, when it is suggested that a blister must be raised.

When the sharp, fierce pain of the knife had done its worst, the consciousness of that remained a dead weight on her brain.

We can easily imagine what a stimulus to all the eager enthusiasts of the Faith the consciousness of this neighbourhood must have been; how keen the desire to rush to the assault and to replace the Cross where it had been before.

Consciousness is the state of being aware of one's existence, thoughts, and surroundings.

Richard Middleton knew that there was a puzzle; in other words, that the universe is a great mystery; and this consciousness of his is the source of the charm of "The Ghost Ship.

Wondrous things hovered before her in the course of this walk; her consciousness had become, by an extraordinary turn, a music-box in which, its lid well down, the most remarkable tunes were sounding.

But even consciousness and knowledge were a less strange and miraculous introduction into the world than conscience.

[-18-] "I speak to you who know these facts and make you who hear them my witnesses not in the intention of uttering idle boasts about myself,your consciousness of the truth being sufficient glory for me,but to the end that you may in this way bring home to yourselves how much better we are equipped than our opponents.