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Quotes About Consciousness

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.
~ Georges Bataille
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.
~ William C. Brown
Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.
~ Frederick Lenz
All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.
~ Peter McWilliams
At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.
~ Russell Simmons
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.
~ Dan Simmons
Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
~ Steven Wright
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
~ Pope John XXIII
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
~ Jim Morrison
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
~ Albert Camus, The Stranger
I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
~ Emo Philips
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
~ Bill Watterson
At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless.
~ Doug Stanhope
I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
~ Marc Maron
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!
~ Russell Howard
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol
~ Jimmy Carr
Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
~ Mitch Hedberg
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
~ George Best
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.
~ Martin Amis, The Information
What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?
~ Steven Wright
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
~ Robert Olen Butler
The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.
~ Richard Bach
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
~ Malcolm de Chazal