Quotes About Consciousness

Thus what the word Renaissance really means is new birth to liberty—the spirit of mankind recovering consciousness and the power of self-determination, recognizing the beauty of the outer world and of the body through art, liberating the reason in science and the conscience in religion, restoring culture to the intelligence, and establishing the principle of political freedom.

Merely surviving without doing harm seemed chore enough.

Take care of her," he bid his servants, weariness and profound satisfaction draining his voice, shrugging into silk robes, bowing in my direction. "Treat her gently." They did, I trust; I don't remember it, in truth. I saw faces approach, awe-stricken. They understand, in Kusheth, what it is to serve Kushiel. I hurt, in every part of me. And I was content. I closed my eyes, then, and let the deeper tide of unconsciousness claim me.

I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Je to zvláÅ¡tní - každý rok prožíváme datum své smrti, a pÃ…â"¢itom o tom ani nevíme. Pokud si ho ovÅ¡em nevybereme sami.

That's the trouble with people—they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

as if perception and thought were independent of the sign

it is based on the foundation, as in Descartes, of the "I am," the foundation of subjectivity and consciousness

we seem to know who we are

we seem to be present to ourselves

presence and self-presence (89).

to what Derrida, following Husserl, calls "the relation to the object" [84])

Het solipsisme is geen verstandsverbijstering en geen sofisme; het is de wezenlijke structuur van de rede.

we work to bring our semitamed ego in line with our higher self so that the ego is an instrument of the soul.

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.

Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

Mind is the master power that molds and makes, And we are Mind, and evermore we take      The tool of thought, and shaping what we will, Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills. We think in secret, and it comes to pass —         Our world is but our looking glass.                 — JAMES ALLEN

every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful (unhealthy) thoughts, the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts, it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.

Thought in the mind hath made us, What we are By thought was wrought and built. If a man's mind Hath evil thoughts, pain comes on him as comes The wheel the ox behind.... ..If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.