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Quotes About Consciousness

He knows the universe and does not know himself.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
~ Rudolf Steiner
When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.
~ Clark Moustakas
The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.
~ R. T. Kendall
I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
~ Immanuel Kant
I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.
~ Perry Farrell
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
~ Meister Eckhart
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
~ Idries Shah
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.
~ Frederick Lenz
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
~ Giacomo Casanova
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.
~ Alan Watts
I think, therefore I laugh.
~ John Allen Paulos
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
~ Jacques Lacan
Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.
~ Confucius
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.
~ Tyler Burge
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
~ Frederick Lenz