Quotes About Consciousness

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

The cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Man is basically an individual molecule of the God-Force.