Consciousness Quotes

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch

Happiness, Busy, Self

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
Olivier Messiaen

Heart, Human, Soul

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Max Planck

Human, Ego, Dictate

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

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Luc de Clapiers

Strength, Character, Prudence

Consciousness is a disease.
Miguel de Unamuno

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
Stanislav Grof

Time, Space, Manifest

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.
Robert Lanza

Life, Experience, Science

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich

Time, Alive, Painful

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.
Leon Trotsky

Nature, Society, Humanity

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
Stanislav Grof

Death, After, Body

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
John Cusack

Reason, Second, Hit

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
James Taylor

Nature, Someone, Human

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
Neale Donald Walsch

Experience, Thinking, Challenge

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Change, General, Poets

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Islam, Between, Happens

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.
Gary Oldman

Write, Idea, Means

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
Stanislav Grof

Another, Earth, Belief

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Eric Butterworth

Experience, Everything

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton

Life, Time, Mean

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life, Religion, Able

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

Change, Write, Group

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
Charles Ives

Nature, Experience, Cannot

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
Ken Kesey

Integrity, Christian, Why

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
Karl Jaspers

Reality, Everything, Through

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.
George Saunders

Goal, Strange, Try

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

High, Level, Higher

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
Stanislav Grof

Nature, Brain, Matter

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
Stanislav Grof

Two, Show, Physics

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
Stanislav Grof

Positive, Death, Fear

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