Consciousness Quotes

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

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.

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

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

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

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

Life will give you whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

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.

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.

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars;

it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

Each of us guard a gate of that can only be unlocked from the inside.

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

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

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.

In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

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.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Life is a state of consciousness.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

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.

The flower of consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

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

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.

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

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

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness .

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.

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

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

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

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

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

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.

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.

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

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation.

But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

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

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.