Awakened
A subject with an awakened social consciousness explores alternatives to the dominant cultural viewpoint.
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Famous quotes containing the word awakened:
“I am awakened each dawn
Increasingly to fear....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief we are inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“The rhetorician would deceive his neighbours,
The sentimentalist himself; while art
Is but a vision of reality.
What portion in the world can the artist have
Who has awakened from the common dream
But dissipation and despair?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)