Quotes: Consciousness. Conservatism. Consistency. Contentment.

The idea in bold-face print is a summary of the quote. The number is the page on which the quote was found.

Consciousness
Consciousness 107 "Somewhere deep inside himself was a wonder at the exhaustion his body could endure." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Consciousness 117 "To counteract this mood [of weariness and depression], he began to feel the various objects in the hole." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Consciousness 118 "His ears were keyed to all the sounds of the night, and from long experience he sifted out the ones that were meaningless." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Consciousness 171 He had a physical sense of life, death and his vulnerability. "…and found his mind churning with the physical knowledge of life and death and his own vulnerability." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Consciousness 418 "…he reeled into unconsciousness, his mind seeming to revolve over and over beneath his closed eyelids." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Consciousness 440 "…at this moment he was living on many levels at once." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Consciousness 534 "With a sick fascination, he envisioned a factory, watched his bullet being made, packed into a carton." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Consciousness 553 I'm just waiting to be hit and while I'm waiting, I'm finding things about myself that I don't want to know. "…we’re stuck over here God knows how long, never knowing when you’re going to catch something, just waiting and sweating it out, and finding out things about yourself that, by God, it don’t pay to know." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Conservatism
Conservatism 119 Conservatism is recognizing human limitations. "Conservatism is primarily based on a proper recognition of human limitations…." Sir Lewis Namier. 1958. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Consistency
Consistency 256 To be consistent, you should be as ignorant as you were a year ago. Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson. 1892. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Contentment
Contentment 74 "Generally those who boast most of contentment have least of it." Thomas Fuller (1). 1642. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Contentment 173 "If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest." Jerome K. Jerome. 1889. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.