Conscious Quotes - Page 25

• I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Men, World

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Real, Fountain

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.472, Courier Dover Publications

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• What makes people want to live forever? I don't think it's limited to our materialistic society of today. Even back to Christian times, they were writing about eternal life after death. So even in death there was a discussion of eternal life. I think this is a universal human desire. It's a horrible thought that this conscious being of ours - with our beautiful bodies - is one day going to decay and die. I don't think it so much has to do with the fear of meeting God, as it is just the thought that this all ends.

  Michael Savage

  Beautiful, Christian, Writing

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• No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

  Guy Finley

  Impossible, Sabotage, Humans

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• Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn’t conscious; it’s Pavlovian. (13)

  Victoria Moran

  Magazines, Our Society, Taught

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• Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.

  Leonard Orr

  Memories, People, Water

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• You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Body, Consciousness

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• My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Identity, Down And, Consciousness

  "Interview With Eckhart Tolle". Interview at Omega Institute, www.ecomall.com. Fall, 2003.

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, Degrees, Ugly

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Real, Firsts

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

  Italo Calvino

  Ocean, Land, Language

  "Cybernetics and Ghosts" (1969)

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

  Albert Camus

  Office, Clerks, Common

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

  Aberjhani

  Moving, Ignorance, Ideas

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• Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.

  Paul Bailey

  Writing, Self, Musical Ability

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

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Giving, World, Way

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Alberto Manguel (2006). “With Borges”, Telegram Books

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• I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's not pornographic. He's a master of eroticism. I stopped being self-conscious. You have to forget everything.

  Eva Green

  Self, Forget Everything, Naked

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• The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

  Criss Jami

  Heaven, Good Person, Christ

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.16, Criss Jami

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• There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.

  Criss Jami

  Spring, Issues, Judging

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.63, Criss Jami

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• Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

  William Wordsworth

  Grateful, Blessing, Cities

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.1-9 (published 1850).

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• Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

  Paul Valery

  Hero, Men, Criminals

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 58), 1931.

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• The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

  John Dryden

  Heart, Mind, Desert

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...”, p.255

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• Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Strong, Sublime, Form

  "The Reconstruction of Humanity" by Pitirim Sorokin, Beacon Press (p. 330), 1948.

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• Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

  Julian Jaynes

  Consciousness

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

  Julian Jaynes

  Real, Vocabulary, Mind

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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