Consciousness Quotations | Page 2

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.

I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent.

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

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

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will.

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.

If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

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.

Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

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.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

We spoke about the importance of raising international consciousness on the issue of human rights in North Korea and the terrible deprivation of human rights by that regime.

Whether it's sight, touch, sound, smell, or even taste, we're conscious of using different elements in the hotel design to heighten the overall guest experience. We bring this consciousness to bear when developing new brand standards, while still being sure to take into account local and regional preferences.

What he gave me was a consciousness on how to do it,

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

Consciousness creates reality.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

We were in a constant state of musical growth. Each album reflected the general consciousness that we were at in that point in time.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

We are consciousness whether we are in this reality or whether we are not in this reality; we are eternal consciousness.

I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness...

When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.

We did not even have a 30-day notice to prepare ourselves so that we could at least have a supply of medications while we tried to figure out what to do next, ... How can you in all good consciousness tolerate this kind of a practice?

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

The poor don't need their consciousness raised as to what a good life looks like,

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.