Quotes About Consciousness

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.