C. Lloyd Morgan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.
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In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
-- C. Lloyd Morgan
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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...
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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
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Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
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It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
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Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).
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Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
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Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.
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Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
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Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
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