Consciousness Quotes

• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Sleep
  • Adversity
  • Bitter

• The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.

  

  Esther Rantzen
  • War
  • Suffering
  • Loses

• Thank God for Carrie Wiatt (creator of Diet Designs)! She has raised my consciousness of healthy eating so much that it will be practiced by me and my family for the rest of our lives. I never dreamed low-fat food could taste so good!

  

  Sela Ward
  • Family
  • Healthy
  • Eating

• He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Long
  • Love
  • Crush

• The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Break
  • Loss
  • Response

• The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Animal
  • Helping
  • Possibility

• If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • New York
  • Population
  • Businessman

• When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Wisdom

• Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

  

  Alison Jolly
  • Power
  • Gift
  • Consciousness

• I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

  

  George Washington
  • Integrity
  • Judgment
  • Comfort

• All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances, spring narratives… The photograph… is only the most peremptory of a huge modern accumulation of documentary evidence… which simultaneously records a certain apparent continuity and emphasizes its loss from memory. Out of this estrangement comes a conception of personhood, identity… which, because it cannot be “remembered”, must be narrated.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Identity
  • Memory
  • Evidence

• Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Earth
  • Consciousness
  • Our Minds

• There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Society
  • Changes
  • Consciousness

• People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.

  

  Arnold Mindell
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Awareness

• The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Drug

• The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

  

  David Hawkins
  • Knowledge
  • Development
  • Obstacle

• I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • I Believe
  • Important Thing
  • Educating

• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

  

  John Sterling
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Consciousness

• Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

  

  Alva Noe
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Consciousness

• Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

  

  Plato
  • Death
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Real
  • Passion
  • Moments

• The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

  

  Stephen LaBerge
  • Consciousness
  • Evolution
  • Dreaming

• I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Children
  • Feminism
  • Poison

• Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence

  

  Moses Mendelssohn
  • Thinking
  • Ignorance
  • Existence

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