Quotes by Consciousness Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling. Haruki Murakami tinyconsciousnesstwilight Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind. Henri Frederic Amiel individualconsciousnessmind What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government. Henry George consciousnessgovernmentbody Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness. Herbert Read exposureconsciousnessart Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest. Herbert Marcuse patternsconsciousnesshistorical 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. Hermann Ebbinghaus returnconsciousnessyears One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased Hermann Ebbinghaus consciousnessmayneeds All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own. Herbert Marcuse consciousnesssatisfactionneeds The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust. Herbert Marcuse frustrationconsciousnessenough Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists. Haruki Murakami scientistindividualconsciousness Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else Hilary Kornblith philosopherconsciousnessmind The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes will still exist. Our presence is temporary. Civilization is only 5,000 to 6,000 years. The history of ours, the material history of consciousness, is rather short. Hiroshi Sugimoto consciousnesscivilizationyears Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness. Hiroshi Sugimoto consciousnesshelpingart Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved. Hjalmar Söderberg dragconsciousnesshumans I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends. Frederick Lenz ramaconsciousnessfashion The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment. Henry Miller consciousnesssidespeace How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! Hosea Ballou benevolenceconsciousnessdone Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience. Frederick Lenz consciousnessknowingperfect When matter stops, self-consciousness stops. Frederick Lenz consciousnessselfmatter When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end. Frederick Lenz samadhiconsciousnessself«1516171819202122232425»
