Best 2905 quotes in «consciousness quotes» category

I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no rationality. There is nothing that could make me speak more strongly to this point.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are prey to false ideologies and national delusions.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one thing that mankind developed was the ability to send their consciousness back and where a lot of the institutions of modern life have fallen apart.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.

I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

It's not about what you do, it's about being. It's about a state of consciousness or state of awareness of being where you're residing within your heart and everything begins to change without actually doing anything.

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.

It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.