Quotes with consciousness…

  • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
  • 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.
  • Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
  • Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
  • Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
  • The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
  • Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
  • The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
  • The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
  • Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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  • Aristotle Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Paul J. Meyer A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Bob Marley Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
    As recorded in filmed interview (1979)
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • B. W. Powe Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
    Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 157
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Henry Miller Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bill Hicks And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Willa Cather Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Hepworth At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Alan Moore Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Audre Lorde But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bhagavad Gita But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Michel Foucault Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • George Santayana Consciousness is a very superficial thing.
    Letters of G. Santayana
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • E. M. Cioran Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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