Top Consciousness Quotes
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson
It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
Lisa Bonet
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
Krist Novoselic
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Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
David Chalmers 
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
Ferdinand Christian Baur
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The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
John Cusack
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
Bridget Riley
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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
Michael Pollan
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Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
David Chalmers
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Marguerite Young
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Rudolf Virchow
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Popular Consciousness Authors
Friedrich NietzscheMason CooleyAlbert Einstein VoltaireOrison Swett MardenBlaise PascalDavid Herbert LawrenceWilliam JamesNapoleon BonaparteEmile M. CioranHenry MillerLao TzuKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelVirginia WoolfFranklin D. Roosevelt
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSimone WeilMarshall McLuhanJeanette WintersonArthur EricksonF. Scott FitzgeraldCarl JungKarl MarxJames ThurberFriedrich DurrenmattLudwig WittgensteinKarl KrausStanislav GrofAyn RandMarcel Proust
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