The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
~By Carl Jung ~
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 ~
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
~By Jeffrey Eugenides ~
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
~By Robin Gibb ~
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.
~By Roger Penrose ~
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 ~
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
~By Rudolf Virchow ~
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
~By Marguerite Young ~
An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.
~By Franz Clemens Brentano ~
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
~By David Chalmers ~
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
~By Barbara Smith ~
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
~By Herbert Croly ~
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
~By Walt Whitman ~
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
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.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.
~By Tom Paulin ~
I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
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 ~
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
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 ~
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
~By Alex Van Halen ~
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 ~
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
~By Ferdinand Christian Baur ~
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.
~By Pierre Loti ~
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
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 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 ~
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
~By Olivier Messiaen ~
Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.
~By James Welch ~
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
~By Paul Twitchell ~
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 ~
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
~By C. L. R. James ~
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.
~By James Taylor ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
~By William Christopher Handy ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
~By David Chalmers ~
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
~By Roger Penrose ~
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
~By Lena Horne ~
Consciousness is a disease.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
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 ~
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.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
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 ~
Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
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 ~
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 ~
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
~By Henry Williamson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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