Consciousness famous quotes
05-15-2025
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
-- Abhinavagupta -
Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).
-- Adi Da -
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
-- Adi Da -
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
-- Adi Shankara -
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
-- Aidan Chambers -
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.
-- Al Berto -
While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.
-- Alan Cohen -
Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.
-- Alan Finger -
When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.
-- Alan Finger -
Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
-- Alan Moore -
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
-- Alan Watts -
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
-- Albert Camus -
There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
-- Aldous Huxley -
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
-- Alex Grey -
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
-- Alex Van Halen -
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
-- Alice Walker -
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
-- Alison Bechdel -
Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
-- Alison Jolly -
Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.
-- Allen Wheelis -
Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.
-- Amit Goswami -
The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
-- Amit Goswami -
I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.
-- Amit Goswami -
We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.
-- Amit Goswami -
Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.
-- Amit Goswami -
There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.
-- Amit Ray -
The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.
-- Andrei Linde -
Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.
-- Annie Dillard -
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
-- Annie Lennox -
It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart
-- Anodea Judith -
In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
-- Aristotle -
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
-- Arthur Eddington -
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
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.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel -
Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.
-- Ayn Rand -
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
-- B. W. Powe -
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.
-- Barbara Pym -
Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.
-- Barbara Seaman -
You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
-- Barry Long -
You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
-- Barry Long -
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
-- Bernard Beckett -
When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.
-- Bertice Berry -
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
-- Bill Mollison -
The spiritual consciousness is never deceived
-- Billy Meier -
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
-- Boris Sidis -
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
-- Brand Blanshard -
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
-- Brian Cox -
If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.
-- Bruno Bettelheim -
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.
-- C. Lloyd Morgan -
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
-- Camille Paglia -
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness
-- Carl Jung -
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
-- Carl Jung -
That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.
-- Carl Jung -
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
-- Carl Jung -
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
-- Carl Jung -
...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.
-- Carl Jung -
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
-- Carl Jung -
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
-- Carl Jung -
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.
-- Carl Sagan -
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
-- Carl Sagan -
I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.
-- Carla Gugino -
The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.
-- Carol Tavris -
The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.
-- Caroline Myss -
Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.
-- Charles A. Reich -
Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.
-- Charles A. Reich -
Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.
-- Charles Frazier -
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.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
-- Charles Simic -
Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.
-- Chris Stringer -
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
If a dragon has already transferred their consciousness to their heart of hearts, then they will die a true death.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
-- Clifford D. Simak -
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now
-- Clifford Geertz -
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
-- Dan Harmon -
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
-- Daniel Dennett -
Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.
-- Danny Hillis -
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.
-- Dave Sim -
Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.
-- David Chalmers -
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?
-- David Chalmers -
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
-- David Cronenberg -
We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
-- David Deida
