Consciousness Quotes

• The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Illusion
  • Delusion
  • Optical

• Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Suffering
  • Consciousness
  • Sole

• Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • World
  • Men
  • Objectives

• The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Space
  • Ability

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

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• 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
  • Friend
  • Existence
  • Consciousness

• The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Consciousness
  • Weakness

• if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Create
  • Used

• To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Consciousness
  • Pure

• The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Consciousness
  • Contribution
  • Definite

• The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Sustains

• The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Care
  • Consciousness
  • Become

• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • End
  • Consciousness
  • Torture

• Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Attention

• I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • World
  • Consciousness
  • Guess

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

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Chaos
  • Consciousness
  • Irony

• How many of his small gestures and postures in the present were embodied echoes of the past, repetitions just beneath the threshold of his consciousness? What would happen to the past if you brought those involuntary muscle memories under your control and edited them, edited them out?

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Memories
  • Consciousness
  • Edited

• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Consciousness

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Birth

• Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Consciousness
  • Miracles

• Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Inspiration
  • Self-Consciousness
  • Subconsciousness

• That, thought Mrs. Fisher, her eyes going steadily line by line down the page and not a word of it getting through into her consciousness, is foolish of friends. It is condemning one to a premature death. One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead—obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life. What she would dislike would be unripening, going back to something green. She would dislike it intensely; and this is what she felt she was on the brink of doing. Naturally it made her very uneasy, and only in constant movement could she find distraction. Increasingly restless and no longer able to confine herself to her battlements, she wandered more and more frequently, and also aimlessly, in and out of the top garden.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Friends
  • Death
  • Developing

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