Quotes About Consciousness

No, what mattered here was that Alice had spent a lifetime struggling to become a conscious human being whose primary delight was the use of her own mind; and now she was locked up in an atmosphere constructed to ignore—nay, discard—that long, valiant effort, when the only thing owed a human being—yes, from first to last—was to have it honored.

The mind arises there and then where and when an ability of making the probabilty-believabilty choice arises.

The mind arises there and then where and when an ability of making the probability-believability choice arises.

Nekdo lahko prebije vse življenje med štirimi stenami. ?e se ne zave ali ?e ne ob?uti, da je jetnik, tedaj ni jetnik. So pa, ki jim je je?a celotni naš planet. Ki vidijo naskon?no prostranstvo vesoljstva, milijone zvezd in tujih nebesnih teles, do katerih jim je za vekomaj zaprta pot. Ta zavest jih dela najve?je sužnje ?asa in prostora.

Ilustra esta declaración con las palabras de Jacques Madaule: "Sé que moriré, pero no lo creo".2

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

A slave that understands his position and struggles against is a revolutionary. A slave that doesn't understand that he is enslaved and vegetates in silent, unconscious and speechless life, is just a slave. A slave that salivates when complacently describing delights of slave life and that is enraptured by good and kind master is a cad, a serf.

In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was the victim. The victim showed no signs of life before being deprived of it. If anything, the corpse which had to be moved and handled before burial seemed more active than its biological predecessor.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others.

if he lost consciousness still telling me to do nothing, I'd have to let him die. You say yourself he's rational. I have no right to go against his desires. No matter how stupid and wasteful they are.

Eu1 - sinele inventat, umplut cu concepte si asteptari despre bine si rau, despre ce trebuie facut, despre ce e de dorit si ce nu. Eu2 - cel care joaca

You've been using my body when I was asleep?

How do you convince your split personality that he's not real?

You got a voice in your head named Alan?

Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others…. One feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two Souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.

In a society that has become so oriented toward language as a way of representing truth, it is very possible to lose touch with your ability to feel and with it your ability to "remember" the shots themselves.