Consciousness Quotes

• Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Energy
  • Chaotic
  • Harmonious

• We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Something
  • Consciousness
  • Eventually

• Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and to be directly aware.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Ability
  • Consciousness
  • Involves

• Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.

  

  Darlene Zschech
  • Greatness
  • Musician
  • Worship

• 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.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Mind
  • Personality
  • Shaking

• The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Mistake
  • Philosophy
  • Bourgeoisie

• People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Forget

• 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.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Consciousness
  • Forced
  • Struggling

• Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Addiction
  • Opposite
  • Refuses

• I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Done
  • Conscious
  • Accused

• Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Consciousness
  • Truths
  • Inference

• A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional. We have all the information we need to see clearly. We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness. It is no longer cute to crap ourselves.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Misery
  • Landscape
  • Trajectory

• I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Power

• We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Universe
  • Artist
  • Poet

• A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Consciousness
  • Feeble Mind

• It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Consciousness
  • Illusion
  • Creates

• Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mind
  • Mad
  • Danger

• It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Light

• Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

  

  Alex Van Halen Van Halen
  • Situation
  • Consciousness
  • Timing

• The state of mind and the perception you can get being on stage is amazing. The feeling between us and the audience is definitely like experiencing another level of consciousness. I’d say it has the potential for mass ritual, really. The audience doesn’t have to be aware of that - they can be there just for the music.

  

  Carl McCoy
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Stage

• The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Belief
  • Consciousness
  • Coaching

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

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Way
  • Consciousness
  • Labels

• In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Light
  • Growth
  • Awareness

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