Consciousness Quotes

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

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.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

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

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

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.

Life is a state of consciousness.

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.