Quotes About Consciousness

Sav život provedemo u tome da sebe pojmimo i to nam ne uspijeva, pa kako onda povjerovati da možemo pojmiti nešto što najzad nismo mi.

realize that the universe is a communion of subjects rather than a collection of objects.

My child, Because you think you are the body, For a long time you have been bound. Know you are pure awareness. With this knowledge as your sword Cut through your chains. And be happy! For you are already free, Without action or flaw, Luminous and bright.

Thomas C. Foster

Since it is in the nature of consciousness to be reflective, we can never fully inhabit any conscious state that we are in, so that our 'restlessness' lies in the very nature of our being.

Do not hope to understand the source of my understanding.

People are often unaware of their own unawareness

In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

She heard footsteps brushing the grass, and had a consciousnesss that love was encircling her like a perfume.

To be conscious that the end of a dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.

To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction--every kind of evidence in the logician's list--have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite alone.

Thought failed him, and he returned to realities.

She went indoors in that peculiar state of misery which is not exactly grief, and which especially attends the dawnings of reason in the latter days of an ill-judged, transient love. To be conscious that the end of the dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.

The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man. This

He was like one who had half fainted, and could neither recover nor complete the swoon.

To be conscious that the end of the dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.

and when he awoke it was as if he had awakened in hell. It WAS hell—the hell of conscious failure

there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

Tess was the merest stray phenomenon to Angel Clare as yet—a rosy, warming apparition which had only just acquired the attribute of persistence in his consciousness.

What I am in worldly estate, she is. What I become, she must become. What I cannot be, she cannot be. And shall I ever neglect her, or hurt her, or even forget to consider her? God forbid such a crime!

In the worst attacks of trouble there appears to be always a superficial film of consciousness which is left disengaged and open to the notice of trifles, and Bathsheba was faintly amused at the boy's method, till he too passed on.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

Curious how things can work on you even when you recognize them.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in mind. ALPHONSE BERTILLON