Best 2905 quotes in «consciousness quotes» category

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

Individual consciousness is just sickness.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

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

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

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

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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 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 still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit 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 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 swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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

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

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 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 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.