Quotes About Consciousness

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

Even when I got ?500 a month as pocket money, I would never spend all of it. It's the same now. I am just conscious of the fact that I wasn't born with a silver spoon.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

The coronavirus pandemic and fears about its spread have brought to a screeching halt years of efforts to get Americans to do one small thing: bring their own bags to the grocery store and stop using plastic ones.

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.

In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located

The manner with which we walk through life is each man's most important responsibility, and we should remember this with every new sunrise.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.