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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. ↗

— Edward Bernays

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

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Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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There's so few people in this town with a conscience. ↗

— Blake Edwards

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As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience. ↗

— Wilhelm Frick

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