Quotes About Consciousness

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.