Quotes on Consciousness

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Author: Iain Banks

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.

Author: Steven Biko

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.

Author: H. Blavatsky

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

Author: Lisa Bonet

An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.

Author: Franz Brentano

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Author: James Broughton

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Author: Craig Bruce

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Author: Joseph Campbell

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.

Author: David Chalmers

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.

Author: David Chalmers

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Author: Emile Cioran

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

Author: J. Coetzee

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

Author: Mason Cooley

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Author: Robert Delaunay

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Author: Ernest Dimnet

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Author: Albert Einstein

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Author: F. Fitzgerald

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

Author: Henry Flynt

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Author: Max Frisch

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.

Author: Stanislav Grof

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Author: Alex Halen

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.

Author: William Handy

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Author: Seamus Heaney

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Author: Martin Heidegger

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

Author: Bill Hicks

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.

Author: Edmund Husserl

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

Author: Edmund Husserl

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

Author: Edmund Husserl

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Author: Carl Jung

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

Author: Anthony Kiedis

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

Author: Karl Kraus

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Author: Joseph Krutch

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.

Author: David Lawrence

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Author: Fran Lebowitz

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.

Author: Audre Lorde

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.

Author: Pierre Loti

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Author: Ramana Maharshi

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Author: Katherine Mansfield

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Author: Orison Marden

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

Author: Marc Maron

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Author: Henry Miller

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Author: Alan Moore

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

Author: Thomas Nagel

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

Author: Tom Paulin

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Author: Max Planck

There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

Author: Tim Robbins

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.

Author: Josiah Royce

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Author: Steven Seagal

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.

Author: Elizabeth Sewell

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.

Author: Michael Shermer

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.

Author: James Thurber

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.

Author: Paul Twitchell

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Author: Miguel Unamuno

Consciousness is a disease.

Author: Miguel Unamuno

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Author: Dennis Weaver

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

Author: Henry Williamson

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Author: Robert Wilson

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.

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Author: Wilhelm Wundt

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.

Author: Wilhelm Wundt

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Author: Wilhelm Wundt

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.

Author: Marguerite Young

Life is a canvas - let your consciousness be the brush that paints it vibrant.

Author: Sophia Johnson

The greatest truths are found in the silence of our own minds.

Author: Sophia Brooks

All that glitters is not gold; sometimes it's just a shimmering facade hiding a touch of darkness within.

Author: Jasmine Parker

Time is the brush, consciousness is the canvas, and perception is the masterpiece.

Author: Sophia Alexander