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Quotes About Consciousness

He pressed his point. "There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path.
~ James Rollins
There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path.
~ James Rollins
Electronic consciousness and the transhuman revolution renders infinite possibilities for the future as man merges with machines. This is an exhilarating time to be alive!
~ James Scott
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
~ James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
~ James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
~ James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
~ James Thurber
But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?" Harriet had once asked her sister curiously. Allison shrugged. "Isn't it boring?" "I only get bored when I'm awake.
~ Donna Tartt
I stood in the shadiest corner I could find with my mass-market paperback and, with a red pencil, went through and underlined a lot of particularly bracing sentences: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind." What would Thoreau have made of Las Vegas: its lights and rackets, its trash and daydreams, its projections and hollow façades?
~ Donna Tartt
And now," said Julian, when everything was quiet, "I hope we are all ready to leave the phenomenal world and enter into the sublime?
~ Donna Tartt
After class, I wandered downstairs in a dream, my head spinning, but acutely, achingly conscious that I was alive and young on a beautiful day; the sky a deep deep painful blue, wind scattering the red and yellow leaves in a whirlwind of confetti.
~ Donna Tartt
After class, I wandered downstairs in a dream, my head spinning, but acutely, achingly conscious that I was alive and young on a beautiful day
~ Donna Tartt
Flapping crows. Shiny beetles crawling in the undergrowth. A patch of sky, frozen in a cloudy retina, reflected in a puddle on the ground. Yoo-hoo. Being and nothingness
~ Donna Tartt
If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.
~ Doreen Virtue
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.
~ Doris Lessing
As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.
~ Doris Lessing
For suddenly it had changed into that gear when time is slower - as when, falling off a ladder, one has time to think: I shall land so, just there, and I must turn in the air slightly... All this in a space of time normally too short for any thought at all. But we are wrong in dividing the mind's machinery from time: they are the same. It is only in such sharp emphatic moments that we recognize this fact.
~ Doris Lessing
They have not yet evolved into an understanding of their individual selves as merely parts of a whole, first of all humanity, their own species, let alone achieving a conscious knowledge of humanity as part of Nature; plants, animals, birds, insects reptiles, and all these together making a small chord in the Cosmic Harmony
~ Doris Lessing
Here tail moved, in another dimension, as if its tip was catching messages her other organs could not. She sat poised, air-light, looking, hearing, feeling, smelling, breathing, with all of her, fur, whiskers, ears---everything, in delicate vibration.
~ Doris Lessing
Category: Inner-space fiction For there is never anywhere to go but in.
~ Doris Lessing
My brain contains so much that is locked up and unreachable.
~ Doris Lessing
My lot were shocked and disturbed, for we thought, if you are not 'politically conscious', then you get what you deserve – Hitler, at least. That some of the most politically conscious generations in history had got Stalin was not a thought we could yet accommodate.
~ Doris Lessing
We sleep our lives away.
~ Doris Lessing