Consciousness Quotes

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.

Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dyn...

Anywhere - and, it follows, nowhere - can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to...

Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experi...

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness ride...

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as a...

He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alte...

Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpas...

Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle withmyself, now I...

Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now ...

For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend...

Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a m...

Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask chi...

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. ...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, t...

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. A...

There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun...

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling o...

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "...

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressi...

Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes...

The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which w...

Many scientific disciplines begin by not observing any sort of vital spark or consciousness in mater...

The merely conscious being does not have a preference for continued life. Perhaps while having a ple...

Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look mor...

Consciousness of unconsciousness

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense ful...

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason...

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere...

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and depend...

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

[O]ur percept is an elaborate computer model in the brain, constructed on the basis of information c...

[T]he form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer ...

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend...

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe ...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these ...

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and...

These poets and other creative persons are the ones who express being itself, he held. As I would pu...

We’re naked under our clothes; we both know what it’s like to need to fart and hold it in, or not be...

The realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlighte...

If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore,and they are just a carnival of error...

We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy...

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can fe...

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to wh...

It is always now

And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And per...

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as...

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like...

Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We fee...

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and ...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of ...

Once we have isolated the computational and neurological correlates of access-consciousness, there i...

If one could amputate part of one's consciousness...

Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and...