Quotes About Consciousness

T]he essence of man is one, but this essence is infinite; … Between me and another human being - … , even though he is only one, … he supplies to me the want of many others, has … a universal significance, is the deputy of mankind, … In another I … have the consciousness of humanity; … I … learn, I … feel, that I am a man: … community constitutes humanity.

Consciousness in the strictest sense is present … in a being whom his species, his essential nature, is an object of thought.

Consciousness in the strictest sense is present only in a being to whom his species, his essential nature, is an object of thought.

This [love] ought to be a furnace that should melt us all into one heart, and should create such a fervour in us … that we should heartily love each other.' But that which in the truth of religion is the essence of the fable, is to the religious consciousness only the moral of the fable, a collateral thing.

T]he understanding or the reason is the necessary being. … [I]f there were no reason, no consciousness, all would be nothing; existence would be equivalent to non-existence. Consciousness first founds the distinction between existence and non-existence. In consciousness is first revealed the value of existence, the value of nature.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really fall? If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As

unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too.

The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

Prisiminimai n?ra kapitalas, kur? turi vis? gyvenim?.Tai - tam tikra atminties kiekyb?,sukaupiama,sužadinama ir išstumiama ? s?mon?.

it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Dying is a misnomer. You're alive, until you're not.

And there is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt. It

Think of it as a parallel universe. But maybe it's the real one, and we're in a dream.

Back in the twentieth century, they had established to everybody's satisfaction that 'I was just following orders' was an inadequate excuse for inhuman contact … but what can you do when the orders come from deep down in that puppet master of the unconscious?

You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.

Oh, stop. You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.