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Quotes About Consciousness

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
~ Heraclitus
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.
~ Kedar Joshi
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.
~ John Cheever
Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.
~ Rajneesh
True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.
~ Paula Gunn Allen
Intelligence is the only moral guide.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.
~ Rajneesh
What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The mind is not limited to the thoughts and imagination, but your mind is part of the cosmos of the universe. Your mind is whole awareness field.
~ Roshan Sharma
Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
~ Spike Jonze
Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?
~ Louisa Hall, Speak
Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.
~ Raheel Farooq
I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
~ Frederick Lenz
The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be defined.
~ Thaddeus Golas
When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.
~ Tara Brach
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
~ Rene Descartes
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
~ Sri Aurobindo
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
~ Mencius
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
~ Voltaire
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
~ Plotinus
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
~ F. H. Bradley