Quotes of Consciousness - somelinesforyou

“ Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. ”

- James Thurber

“ A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ 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

“ Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness — I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ”

- Aristotle

“ A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. ”

- Ramana Maharshi

“ Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid — as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ 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. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ”

- Joseph Wood Krutch

“ Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. ”

- Barbara De Angelis

“ Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces — in nature, in society, in man himself. ”

- Leon Trotsky

“ The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. ”

- Miguel de Unamuno

“ The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ”

- Joseph Brodsky

“ The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. ”

- Henry Miller

“ There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. ”

- Eric Butterworth

“ The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time. ”

- Peter Abrahams

“ It is impossible to imagine that humanity has suddenly become blind and has really lost the consciousness of a mortal danger. ”

- Wladyslaw Anders

“ Life is a state of consciousness. ”

- Emmet Fox

“ It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ”

- Adrienne Rich
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