Quotes About Consciousness

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

The only thing a man knows is himself.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.