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Consciousness Quotes
"When consciousness is there, can life be far away?"
"An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing."
"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."
"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
"Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness."
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
"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."
"We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization."
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."
"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
"Consciousness makes you an unlimited being by giving the power of your imagination."
"I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either."
"The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness."
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
"When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM"."
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
"The level of consciousness defines the level of understanding and awareness."
"Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness."
"All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat."
"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
"Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object."
"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences."
"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."
"It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious."
"Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness."
"Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides."
"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."
"Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness."
"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness."
"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."
"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
"Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century."
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