Conscious Quotes

• Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Literature
  • Habit
  • Tradition

• What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Buddhist
  • Womb
  • Domains

• I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Circle

• People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Animals
  • Intuitive

• Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Birth

• We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Focus
  • Conscious
  • Stream

• Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • State
  • Conscious
  • Responsibilities

• Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Political
  • Matter
  • Conscious

• I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Know
  • Part
  • Wants

• Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

  

  Charles Hartshorne
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Philosophy

• Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Food
  • Me
  • Weight

• I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

  

  Molly Parker
  • Strong
  • Conscious
  • Complexes

• What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Beginning
  • Conscious
  • Been

• When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Guy
  • Looks
  • Rap

• You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Everyone
  • Phones
  • Heads

• There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Fear

• This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Levels

• We understand very clearly what's at stake. The president made a conscious decision to cater to the base and left Middle America out in the cold.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Decision
  • President
  • Conscious

• I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Conscious
  • Making
  • Accessible

• I'm a huge fan of Leonardo DiCaprio's career. I love the path that he's taken. He seems to be very conscious of exactly what kind of project he wants for the following part of his career.

  

  Roberto Aguire
  • Conscious
  • Project
  • Following

• Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Healing

• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

  

  Plutarch
  • Wounds
  • Repentance
  • Remorse

• The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Trying
  • Joy
  • Songwriting

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