Consciousness Quotes

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

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.

The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

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

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

No matter what happens, I am conscious all the time.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

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.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness.

So many of us have separated ourselves from our source and have lived on ego consciousness.

When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause and effect, beginnings and ends, don't have any impact or relevance.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

Individual consciousness is just sickness.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

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