Quotes About Consciousness

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

No man is a devil in his own mind.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.