Quotes About Consciousness

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you're able to make room for other things.

Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no.

Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

I also personally think - as do many others - that a shift on consciousness is needed toward one where we understand that we are in a relationship with the earth and all living beings, that we have agency. That life is worth fighting for.

For me, that is what my mission seems to be in my life on earth - to be awake, to stay awake, and to bring a certain kind of consciousness to the world, and to myself.

If I have a combination of calm and fear, I access mental states way beyond normal consciousness. That's why I choose to do scary things.

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness... it's manipulative and deeply political.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

I try to be, like, hella sensitive to my surroundings.

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.

It's weird, the evolution of a person. You understand yourself, you understand your surroundings. Then, when you understand who came before you, once you understand that about yourself and the energy that you came to this planet with, you understand more about yourself.

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.