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A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

All of us as human beings are connected by one energy and consciousness. So we all affect each other and everything that's happening in the world affects us individually. And what we're each doing as an individual affects what's going on in the world.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All.

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the new behavior and actions that will naturally come as a result.

An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Art is the consciousness of currency.