Quotes About Consciousness

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

No man can see his own prejudices.

Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.