If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. ~By John Abercrombie ~
We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared. ~By Joshua Leonard ~
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. ~By M. Esther Harding ~
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. ~By Robert Redford ~
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ~By Marshall McLuhan ~
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 ~
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. ~By Audre Lorde ~
In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah. ~By Anthony Kiedis ~
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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 ~
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. ~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. ~By Theodor Adorno ~
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ~By Marshall McLuhan ~
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it. ~By Roger Penrose ~
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 seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people. ~By Anthony Kiedis ~
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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 ~
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. ~By James M. Baldwin ~
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. ~By Charles Ives ~
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 ~
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 ~
Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms. ~By Audre Lorde ~
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. ~By Michael Shermer ~
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. ~By Max Planck ~
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 ~
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 hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. ~By Jack Kerouac ~
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 ~
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. ~By John Millington Synge ~
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. ~By Marc Maron ~
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. ~By Nassau William Senior ~
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion. ~By Craig Bruce ~
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. ~By Annie Dillard ~
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle. ~By Krist Novoselic ~
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. ~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ~By Luciano Berio ~
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. ~By Vladimir Lenin ~
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 ~
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. ~By Johannes P. Muller ~
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. ~By Ernest Mandel ~
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. ~By Robert Delaunay ~
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. ~By Ramana Maharshi ~
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 ~
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 ~
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. ~By Paul Wellstone ~
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. ~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths. ~By Steven Seagal ~
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. ~By Helen Hayes ~
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. ~By Lao Tzu ~
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. ~By Josiah Royce ~
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. ~By Barbara de Angelis ~
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 ~
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. ~By Aaron Copland ~
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. ~By James Thurber ~
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 ~
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ~By Matthew Simpson ~
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. ~By Jasper Johns ~
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 ~
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. ~By Steven Biko ~
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith. ~By Nick Rahall ~
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. ~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ~By Joseph Campbell ~
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. ~By Thomas Nagel ~
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 ~
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. ~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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. ~By Franz Liszt ~
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness. ~By Alex Van Halen ~
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. ~By Peter Abrahams ~
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 ~
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 ~
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. ~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. ~By Ernest Mandel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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. ~By Eugenio Montale ~
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature. ~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. ~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. ~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
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 ~
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. ~By John Cheever ~
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution. ~By Barbara Hepworth ~
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 ~
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved. ~By Hans Kung ~
There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things. ~By Mike Leigh ~
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 ~
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 ~
The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class. ~By Ernest Mandel ~
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ~By Max Eastman ~
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