The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness. — Emile Durkheim
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people. — Frantz Fanon
...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. — David Bohm
Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange. — Danny Hillis
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world. — Tracy Chapman
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads. — Giuseppe Mazzini
We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. — Zachary Quinto
Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. — Albert Hofmann
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. — H. P. Blavatsky
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. — Auguste Comte
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. — Hermann Hesse
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. — Rupert Sheldrake
Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. — Graham Hancock
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual. — Grace Lee Boggs
Short Collective Consciousness Quotes
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility — Thomas Szasz
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. — Abba Eban
A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it. — Antonio Damasio
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals. — Abba Eban
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities. — Emile Durkheim
Measure your success not by the things you collect, but by the lives you affect.
Social Consciousness Quotes
Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society. — Antonio Gramsci
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. — Deepak Chopra
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. — Joseph Brant
Life will give you whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically. — Amit Goswami
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. — Joyce Carol Oates
In any profession, 90% of people are clueless but work by situational imitation, narrow mimicry and semi-conscious role-playing. Except social science and journalism where it is 99% and 100%, respectively. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. — Judith Lewis Herman
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational. — T. S. Eliot
There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others. — H. Rap Brown
Collective Unconscious Quotes
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. — Pierre Bourdieu
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. — Edward Sapir
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. — Miguel Serrano
Each of us guard a gate of that can only be unlocked from the inside.
I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious. — Bill Hicks
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. — Carl Jung
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. — Steven Spielberg
Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon. — Jon Krakauer
The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me. — Carl Jung
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. — David Letterman
Collective Memory Quotes
Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory. — Aldo Rossi
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion. — Tariq Ramadan
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.
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. — Mahmoud Darwish
Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory. — Hilaire Belloc
If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please. — Henry Mancini
Collect moments, not things.
I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories. — Channing Tatum
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. — Margaret Walker
I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories. — Sarah Strohmeyer
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. — Ang Lee
Collective Intelligence Quotes
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time. — Louis J. Freeh
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting. — Vladimir Putin
Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent. — Pierre Levy
Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.
Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. — Karl Albrecht
Don't travel alone....meet up with others who are traveling also on the path of change, you can learn from each other a lot and together carry more learning experiences (social learning and collective intelligence). -Nadia Gabriela Dresscher — Lambert of Maastricht
My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collect moments, not things.
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. — Louise Leakey
In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. — Federica Montseny
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies. — Saxby Chambliss
ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that from the [Edward] Snowden disclosures, they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent. — Michael Morell
Collective Knowledge Quotes
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources". — Henry Mintzberg
Collecting a teacher’s knowledge may help us solve the challenges of the day but understanding how a teacher thinks can help us navigate the challenges of a lifetime. — Adam Grant
The store of collective human knowledge is diluted by 50% each year. — Mo Gawdat
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. — Nick Bostrom
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness .
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge. — Laurel Clark
I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors. — Alexandra Patsavas
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing. — Laurens van der Post
Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates. — Samuel Johnson
Collective Action Quotes
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison
The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation. — W. Edwards Deming
What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately specified theory of collective action whereby a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts. — Elinor Ostrom
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. — Ron Paul
Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom. — William J. H. Boetcker
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. — Barack Obama
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs. — Donald Berwick
Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together. — Wesley Clark
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human Consciousness Quotes
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. — Steven Biko
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious. — Sigmund Freud
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. — Greg Egan
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness. — Daniel Dennett
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. — John Shelby Spong
Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate. — Niklas Luhmann
True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind. ‘Still waters run deep’ is a good way of characterizing it. — Amir Levine
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan
Collectivism Quotes
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. — Pope John Paul II
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. — Ayn Rand
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. — Robert A. Heinlein
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. — Ayn Rand
Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. — Karl Hess
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable. — Terence McKenna
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny. — Richard Ebeling
We are all antennae for creative thought. Some transmissions come on strong, others are more faint. If your antenna isn’t sensitively tuned, you’re likely to lose the data in the noise. Particularly since the signals coming through are often more subtle than the content we collect through sensory awareness. They are energetic more than tactile, intuitively perceived more than consciously recorded. — Rick Rubin
A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, income, and real-estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition. — Balaji Srinivasan
Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source. — Candace Pert
I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. — Elon Musk
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. — John McCain
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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. — Michael Bergdahl
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. — Marshall McLuhan
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other. — Toni Morrison
When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all the laws of nature. This experience alone will transform our collective reality - our human civilization to one of unity, peace, and harmony. — John Hagelin
The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world. — Deepak Chopra
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development. — A. E. Waite
Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what has variously been called collective consciousness or, as theologians have termed it, the Holy Spirit. — Lynne McTaggart
The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance. — Ludwik Fleck
Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
There is no birth of consciousness without pain. — Carl Jung
The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness. — Daniel Pinchbeck
It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously. — Wilson Bryan Key
There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine. — Marianne Williamson
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. — Arthur M. Schlesinger
In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high. — David Lynch
But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. — Ayn Rand
I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works. — Deepak Chopra
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives. — Eckhart Tolle
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around. — Marianne Williamson
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others
glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness.
It's a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose,
the sum effect of our work? — Oliver Stone
As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace. — David Lynch
If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect our environment and that collective consciousness. The more people who are diving within and transcending and are getting that happiness and positivity, the better the world will be. — David Lynch
The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream. — Oriah Dreamer
Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans. — Ilchi Lee
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we
can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness. — Sayings
Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious. — Nirmala Srivastava
One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends. — Bell Hooks
The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time. — Derrick Jensen
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. — John Kenneth Galbraith
You have to get something that is beyond, something special, something unique that happens to you, by which you become one with the whole. This is what should be asked for, not for all other things that people ask for. Isn't it? That's the truth. You have to achieve it, to be in your collective consciousness. — Nirmala Srivastava
I often look around me and think about this specific place in time, and what things will endure and become objects of nostalgia for the future. Pokémon? Urban Vinyl figures? Superheroes? Vampires? iPhones? It will be the things that resonate with the collective consciousness of this current time. — Mark Ryden
I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of COMPASSION for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!' — Pierce Brosnan
Absolute knowledge is only possible when you know the Absolute Truth and to have the Absolute Truth you have to go to the Absolute Being within you which is your Spirit. So, it gives you the truth, it gives you the collective consciousness. The main thing is that you become extremely peaceful personality, you become peace, you emit peace. — Nirmala Srivastava
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