Quotes About Consciousness

Today I have to screw on the expression of a person thought I am at most an animal and the animal I am spirals

You are alive, I whisper to myself, therefore something in you listens.

We are simply spirits in a shell. The body is merely a covering, a casement for the soul.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Des quantités de livres dorment ainsi en moi, des bons et des mauvais, de tout genre. Des phrases, des mots, des alinéas et des vers qui, pareils à des locataires remuants, reviennent brusquement à la vie, errent solitaires ou entament dans ma tête de bruyants bavardages que je suis incapable de faire taire.

You reason like a well-fed man, while your comrade's philosophy comes from an empty stomach. With reason you won't vanquish one another. You would agree at once if either you were hungry or he were full. The animal is always first in you and only when it is appeased, Man becomes conscious and in his great pride, despises his real nature.

Indeed, the sense of shame seems to me to be the earliest indication of the moral consciousness of our race.

The universe with all its stars and galaxies is a pinhead compared to the space inside the mind.

The individual artist is a medium for making representational and deeply meaningful symbols of the community's collective consciousness, whether they are symbols of the community's religion, love, hurt, power, hate, hope, dream, fables, foibles or on and on and on.

Unii oameni traiesc, iar altii ii contempla cum traiesc, eu ma numar printre cei care contempla. Dumneavoastra?

Estar permanentemente en las palabras, quieras o no, estar siempre vivo, lleno de palabras por la vida, como si las palabras estuviesen vivas, como si la vida fuera palabra.

What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

It is always the case: if your tooth hurts, your tongue keeps going there. You are always conscious of a wound.

Thus, in the bigger picture of innate human consciousness, the kaleidoscope of the "wheel of rebirth" is always slowly turning, and forming new reality-box "patterns" as it does so. |38| INNATE CONSCIOUSNESS RECOMBINANT 277 IN ITS September 29, 2001 issue (Vol. 160), SCIENCE NEWS, the esteemed journal that updates, in nutshell formats

But psychic information, to be unimpeded, cannot become such an amalgam.

The only real problem is that language researchers cannot yet find the language piano itself, which is apparently installed in the seat of consciousness, again not locatable so far.

all in the flick of a moment during which conscious involvement attenuated and allowed the deeper self to shove upward the completed problem.

For example, is their consciousness the same universal stuff of human consciousness?