Consciousness Quotes

p5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason...

We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our or...

The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perha...

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence ...

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable...

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily...

Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose ...

Reade drew a deep breath. He said with resignation, "All right. I'll try to explain. But it's rather...

It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He ...

To speak conventionally - and I think it is easier for the general reader to see Zen thus presented ...

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas maybe we do so because those ideas are...

In the words of Lynne McTaggart: "Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possi...

It's a thought," I said with a grin."That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than ...

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. A mystery is a phenomenon that people ...

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose sel...

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky ...

I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not r...

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditi...

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even d...

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions a...

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive....

He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping...

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into ...

The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, ...

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every...

How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your stat...

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different ...

A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's...

In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illu...

If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a ...

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each o...

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetua...

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

As the soul seeks, then, for that which is the sustenance of the body—as what the food is to a devel...

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

His meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of...

Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence....

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake...

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental...

There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their m...

Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning i...

When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlli...

Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t real...

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousne...

The bite of conscience is indecent.

The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any c...

Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to m...

When we understand all that constitutes the cognitive unconscious, our understanding of the nature o...

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act ...

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood...

Consciousness is a born hermit.

The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'conden...

Oh, there will still be deception. The fresh crew will emerge as adults, will have memories of past ...

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not ...

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the...

No two moments are identical in a conscious being

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who h...

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

My philosophy: Don't get caught with a fixed philosophy, a setof safe beliefs, a particular way of l...

I feel that I am merely an agent, giving you some keys that have been given to me to pass on to you....

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passa...

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is n...

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open a...

My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my j...

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the con...

and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too b...

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

The child's world is alert and alive, governed by rules of response and command, not by physical law...

In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the...

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious ...

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, in...

…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing ...

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocab...

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot ...

Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My po...

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The mystery of this courage of Bauer’s is Hegel’s Phenomenology. As Hegel here puts self-consciousne...

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.