Quotes About Consciousness

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Few men know all the ill they do.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.