Consciousness Quotes

“Enlightenment”

“Self-awareness”

“Self-consciousness”

“Life is not determined by Consciousness, but Consciousness by life.”

“Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion.”

“Sicut ignoras quomodo anima coniungatur corpori sic nescis opera dei.”

“Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable.”

“Wikipedia: Consciousness”

“The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.”

“There may be several forms of visual awareness and, by extension, even more forms of consciousness in general.”

“Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild.”

“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else.”

“All our so-called consciousness is a more or less fantastic commentary on an unknown, perhaps unknowable, but felt text.”

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”

“The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.”

“These realizations, or apprehended expansions of consciousness, are under natural law, and come in due course of time to every soul without exception.”

“Consciousness is always accompanied by subjectivity.”

“In retrospect, today's entire dreaming and waking consciousness may prove to be only minor variants on a theme whose motif can't be grasped from within.”

“Sleep is no more a form of death than death is a form of unconsciousness. Complete unconsciousness is impossible. You can rest in peace only because you are awake. p. 56”

“Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.”