Consciousness Quotes

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

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

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

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

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

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

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 great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

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.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

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

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.