Quotes About Consciousness

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

You gave me in secret one thing to perceive, the tall blue starry strangeness of being here at all.

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Comer carne de ganadería intensiva es comer humillación, angustia y dolor.

Dans leur ensemble, les humains ne veulent pas entendre parler des conditions dans lesquelles la viande est obtenue. Ils zappent la phase de l'élevage autant que celle de l'abattage. Quand ce n'est pas du déni, c'est au moins de l'évitement. Nul ne veut savoir la somme de souffrances qu'il a fallu pour produire ce fricandeau, ce boudin noir, cette escalope milanaise ou ce ris de veau. C'est comme s'ils arrivaient dans nos assiettes par une opération du Saint-Esprit.

Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.

We live in several moments, several places, at once.

Satori (enlightenment) is described as nothing seeing itself as such.

This highly enigmatic concept of the storehouse consciousness, which some Western scholars have aptly or inaptly tried to liken to Jung's collective unconscious,

It takes place on a dimension higher than that of science (or scientism) or common sense.

You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Bibo, ergo sum. - I drink, therefore I am

Peitsin pää ta rinnale, sulesin silma, kuulasin — mida? — ei tea. Võib olla, iseenese, võib olla, tema, võib olla, kogu maailma südametukset.

Ein Gott ist der Mensch, wenn er träumt, ein Bettler, wenn er nachdenkt.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate -- and immediately forget we have done so.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.