Sentence examples for conscious of itself from inspiring English sources

We are the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Boxall points out that the traditional realist novel was always critical of its own mimetic procedures, always conscious of itself as mere tremulations on the ether.

If de Kooning's last works are for us about his own disappearance, a last behavioural trace, Marden's sense of the body is fully conscious of itself.

"So I would say what's interesting in 'Waking Life' is how the film becomes conscious of itself and how you become conscious of watching a film.

And then we could remember that evolution's not done with us yet, and we're just one stage in the universe becoming conscious of itself.

"There is no reason why a nostalgia conscious of itself, a lucid and remorseless dissatisfaction with the present on the grounds of some remembered plenitude, cannot furnish as adequate a revolutionary stimulus as any other," writes Jameson in Marxism and Form.

The delightful "Love Songs," with its four couples dancing to well-known songs, suffers from a self-conscious offering of itself as part of a dance genre rather than simply a dance.

Likewise, Olson argues (following Locke), a person is anything that is able to think in certain ways anything that "is rational, … ordinarily conscious and aware of itself as tracing a path through time and space, … [and] morally accountable for its actions" (ibid.: 32).

In the longer second act you become conscious of a script annotating itself, and the way the play scores off Mr. Pearce's character, the dubious object of Annie's political engagement, still feels entirely too easy.

As Eckhart says, "Right now, put your attention not on what you are conscious of, but on consciousness itself.

My suggestion instead would be that the underlying conception of immediacy or givenness, of which the foregoing criteria are best regarded as merely symptoms, is that for something to be given is simply for it to be an aspect or feature of the content of conscious experience itself (as distinct from the intentional objects that such conscious content may in part be about or in some way represent).