Quotes About Consciousness

Ob ein Mensch Erfahrungen machen kann oder nicht, ist in letzter Instanz davon abhängig, wie er vergisst.

It is not so much that subjectivity is communicated or expressed by music as that in it, as in a theater, something objective is enacted, the identifiable face of which has been obliterated. It is rather that the orchestra plays within musical consciousness than that a consciousness is projected onto the orchestra.

A ciência ela própria não tem consciência de si, ela é um instrumento, enquanto o esclarecimento é a filosofia que identifica a verdade ao sistema científico.

Beatrice closed her eyes and dreamed whatever flowers dream. Beatrice: That's very poetic, but they don't dream anything. Flowers have no cerebral cortex.

Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth--far from it. For it is the whole experience of mankind that sexual life is always, and must always be, hidden by veils of varying degrees of opacity, if it is to be humanized into something beyond a mere animal function. What is inherently secretive, that is to say self-conscious and human, cannot be spoken of directly; the attempt leads only to crudity, not to truth.

If humankind, as T. S. Eliot put it, cannot bear very much reality, it seems that it can bear any amount of unreality.

modern 'scientific' sociology, whose achievement has been to obscure by means of statistical legerdemain the importance of human consciousness

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Change the prevailing mode of consciousness and you change the world.

The youthful disaffiliation of our time strikes beyond ideology to the level of consciousness, seeking to transform our deepest sense of the self, the other, and the environment.

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

time only exists to stop everything happening at once.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

My actions are my only true belongings.

Life is available only in the present moment.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

God is as real as mind and the mind is as real as nature.

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.

The greatest intellectual achievement of men should be not only in understanding the importance of the reason, but to consciously and boldly overthrow it as and when the welfare of others' warrants it. Why should anybody think about others welfare? This is because the reason's practical worth is only with respect to others. Instinct is often enough to take care of an individual, but the reason is necessary to meet the societal requirements and also to derive benefits from it.

We control the content of our dreams.

you have not been / paying attention

I'm not here, This isn't happening

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.