Consciousness Quotes
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The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
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Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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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.
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
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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.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
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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.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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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.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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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.
