Quotes About Consciousness

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

Man becomes what he thinks about

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Your inner being is he who men call God.

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.

The mind's the standard of the man.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.