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  • There is no consciousness [Bewusstsein] without something that is at the same time excluded and contracted [ausgeschlossen und angezogen].

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

  • Das Sein bestimmt das Bewusstsein – I thought us liberals had made some headway in this regard, but apparently not.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Virtues of Crowded Transit 2008

  • Hegel thought that the root of das ungluckliches Bewusstsein was internal division.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Ganz in dem Bewusstsein etwas Außergewöhnliches zu schaffen, arbeitete er unaufhörlich daran, Ed Hardy das neue Label Ed Hardy zum Erfolg zu führen.

    Give Mr Winer his Wine + Roses Ben Barren 2005

  • Hegel thought that the root of das ungluckliches Bewusstsein was internal division.

    This unhappy consciousness Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Ganz in dem Bewusstsein etwas Außergewöhnliches zu schaffen, arbeitete er unaufhörlich daran, Ed Hardy das neue Label Ed Hardy zum Erfolg zu führen.

    "Wait, Aren't You Scared?" Rogers 2006

  • Wilhelm Dilthey, for example, speaks not of “meta - physical imagination” but of “metaphysical conscious - ness” (das metaphysische Bewusstsein), by which he means an awareness of “the riddle of life.”

    METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

  • There is a want of self-discipline about the thought, and he is too hasty in committing ill-digested thoughts ill-arranged to print, while his style is full of tedious mannerisms, such as his constant use of futile superlatives for positives, the constant occurrence of certain words not always in their natural meaning, such as _Bewusstsein_, _Erlösung_, etc.

    Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

  • It loses personal form and activity -- these passing over to the content -- and becomes a bare Bewusstheit or Bewusstsein uberhaupt, of which in its own right absolutely nothing can be said.

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

  • Bewusstsein and Gewissen the Germans have made a serviceable distinction answering to our "consciousness" and "conscience".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

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