Quotes About Consciousness

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

The key to every man is his thought.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.