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conscious (n.)

conscious (adj.)

The hand that rounded Peter's dome,

And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,

Wrought in a sad sincerity;

Himself from God he could not free;

He builded better than he knew:

The conscious stone to beauty grew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): The Problem.

  To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881): Sybil. Book i. Chap. v.

The conscious water saw its God and blushed.

Richard Crashaw (Circa 1616-1650): Epigram.