Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
~By William James ~
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.
~By Gary Oldman ~
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
~By John Sterling ~
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
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.
~By Mark Hopkins ~
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
~By John Sterling ~
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
~By Karl Marx ~
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
~By James Broughton ~
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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.
~By Huey Newton ~
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
~By Thomas Nagel ~
A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
~By Elizabeth Missing Sewell ~
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
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.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
~By Gunther Grass ~
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.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
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.
~By David Chalmers ~
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
~By Walter Pater ~
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
~By Henry Miller ~
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
~By Norman McLaren ~
Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
~By David Chalmers ~
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.
~By Judith Wright ~
Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.
~By Michael Bergdahl ~
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
~By Carl Jung ~
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.
~By Bruno Bauer ~
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
~By Alan Moore ~
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.
~By Isaac Rosenberg ~
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
~By John McGahern ~
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
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.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
~By Alex Grey ~
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
~By Michael Pollan ~
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.
~By Louis Althusser ~
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
~By Ella Maillart ~
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
~By Marcel Proust ~
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.
~By Val Kilmer ~
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
~By Henri Bergson ~
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
~By Jonny Lang ~
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.
~By Julie Christie ~
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
~By Daniel Clement Dennett ~
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity.
~By Masami Akita ~
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
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.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
~By Marguerite Young ~
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.
~By Shemar Moore ~
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
~By Roland Joffe ~
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.
~By David Icke ~
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.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
~By Terri Windling ~
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
~By Steven Biko ~
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
~By Mason Cooley ~
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
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.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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.
~By John Cusack ~
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
~By Iain Banks ~
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
~By Les Brown ~
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
~By John McCain ~
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.
~By Henry James ~
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
~By George B. McClellan ~
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
~By Rudolf Virchow ~
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
~By Balthus ~
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
~By Luciano Berio ~
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
~By Robert Johnson ~
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.
~By Tom Paulin ~
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
~By M. Esther Harding ~
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