Quotes About Consciousness

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. It's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. — George Orwell, 1984

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

One of the greatest bores in life is a too knowing fellow, who sees through all delusions, and will never let you enjoy any of them, not even your favorite ones, no matter how agreeable they may be, but must be always waking you out of some delicious dream, only to tell you, "My dear sir, you are dreaming;" as if it were not both proper and natural to dream. He forgets that many things are pleasant only while the delusions which make them so last.

I never look back darling. It distracts from the now.

I don't know. You're made of metal, but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that means you have a soul. And souls don't die.

Truthfulness about beliefs sets you free from unconscious domination by beliefs you have come to think are reality. Then, once you are free of the illusion that beliefs are real, you can choose to be consciously dominated by beliefs you know are not real.

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

You need to understand something Cal-in this world, we're not humans having a divine experience. We're divine beings having a human experience.

Conscious Capitalism,

tilted her head, like a dog hearing a strange sound. "Does pain happen if you don't remember it?" Kat

Perhaps once we might be able to sneak a death past him. Immortal, yes, but not indestructible. I saw that when AM withdrew from my mind, and allowed me the exquisite ugliness of returning to consciousness with the feeling of that burning neon pillar still rammed deep into the soft gray brain matter. He withdrew, murmuring to hell with you. And added, brightly, but then you're there, aren't you.

Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves.

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

All of us are, as Mr. Stevens said, "condemned to be that inescapable animal, ourselves.

A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the protagonist can separate his genius for expanding consciousness from his own passion for theatricality.

Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, in which excessive consciousness negates action, which is at some distance from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Freud, slyly following Shakespeare, gave us our map of the mind; Kafka intimated to us that we could not hope to use it to save ourselves, even from ourselves.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.

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Prima di vivere con gli altri, bisogna che viva con me stesso: la coscienza è l'unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.

Los hombres tienen tendencia a clasificar su honradez por casilleros, Jean Louise. Pueden ser perfectamente honestos en ciertos aspectos y engañarse a sí mismos en otros.