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Tuesday, 16 October 1883

in the margin Revue des deux Mondes Consciousness, 15 October 1883
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All psychic changes are bound up with physical movements and call into play a certain number of nerve centres.
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Modern psychology recognises that we are a society of cells... Every act of consciousness implies a concert of cells which requires a certain time to take place.
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The unconscious life.
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Sphere of the self at the moment when it seems empty of feelings of thoughts of acts, projected ray of attention and you will see atoms as in a sunbeam. Noises show perceptions without perception.
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Hartmann attributes a thousand virtues to the unconscious, deep instinct, a thought all the more infallible for being unaware of itself.
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A being never acts more wisely than when it does not know what it is doing. “Always to feel the same thing amounts to not feeling.” Dig into it, it is immense. Yes so that one perceives no new shock... That is Hobbes.
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Every man like me knows philosophical principles by instinct; he finds them out alone, naturally.
I have just re-read, by chance, a few pages of my life in 1880. And I find myself far happier now. It is quite remarkable — in comparison, and even without comparison, I have not a care in the world; I am at peace. And yet back then! I wept every day, I fretted... There was reason enough... Now I see it all from higher up, from very high indeed; our situation is better; I no longer trouble myself to talk with my family — I extract from them what I can and let the little lies pass; these people know they no longer deceive me. Oh! yes, I am well now, and I give thanks to God for it.