Consciousness quotes; If you’re interested in consciousness, or just curious about it, you might be wondering what it is. The short answer is not very satisfying at all. Scientists and philosophers can’t even agree on a definite definition, much less an exact definition of consciousness. What is clear, though, is that conscious creatures are aware of themselves, of their environment, and of themselves as a whole. Let us read consciousness quotes.
Consciousness Quotes
Spirituality is the consciousness of victory over self and of communion with the Infinite. Spirituality impels one to conquer difficulties and acquire more and more strength. To feel one’s faculties expanding the soul is one of life’s most sublime experiences.— David Oman McKay
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.— Albert Camus
There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.— Norman Vincent
as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends on our minds.— John William Navin Sullivan
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.— Jean Iris Murdoch
To judge another is to believe that we understand the position of another soul. Who can really know the consciousness of another soul?— Eliott JamesConce
it 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.— Louisa May Alcott
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.— Joseph Campbell
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.— Catherine Drinker BowenI
Believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibility; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.— Hugh Walpole
Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.— Sydney Smith
Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out— R. A. Lafferty
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.— Henry James
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.— Carl Gustav Jung
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.— Eric Hoffer
As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.— Paramahansa YoganandaSolomon’s
Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness hearth innuendos.— George Eliot
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.— Alan Watts
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.— Max Eastman
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.— Peter Abrahams
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.— William James
No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.— Shulamith Firestone
Of all the ingredients we employ in the creation of a garden, scent is probably the most potent and the least understood. Its effects can be either direct and immediate, drowning our senses in a surge of sugary vapor, or they can be subtle and delayed, slowly wafting into our consciousness, stirring our emotions and coloring our thoughts.— Stephen Lacey
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.— Arthur Edward Waite
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.— Peter Abrahams
Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.— Joyce Carol Oates
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is our self against ourselves.— Alan Watts
