To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom and ...so forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of... course, on memory).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we imagine what it is like to be a languageless creature, we start, naturally, from our own experience, and most of what then... springs to mind has to be adjusted (mainly downward). The sort of consciousness such animals enjoy is dramatically truncated, compared to ours. A bat, for instance, not only can't wonder whether it's Friday; it can't even wonder whether it's a bat; there is no role for wondering to play in its cognitive structure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My consciousness-raising group is still going on. Every Monday night it meets, somewhere in Greenwich Village, and it drinks a lot... of red wine and eats a lot of cheese. A friend of mine who is in it tells me that at the last meeting, each of the women took her turn to explain, in considerable detail, what she was planning to stuff her Thanksgiving turkey with. I no longer go to the group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the t...rappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to cons...ciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The LORD forbid that I should raise my hand against the LORD's anointed; but now take the spear that is at his head, and the water... jar, and let us go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our ancestor'; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up ...children to Abraham.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »