Quotes About Consciousness

I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.

My wife and I will often have conversations about 'Good Times' and 'The Jeffersons' and 'Sanford and Son.' They were doing incredible stuff that was very funny but also very socially conscious.

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

The next generation of luxury consumers are much more socially conscious, and they look to invest in brands that see the world the way they do.

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.

I've always been known for making socially conscious music in the midst of the love songs and the bedroom songs.

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

There's no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can't work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking at their socio-economic position.

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.