Consciousness Quotes - Page 4

• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Best Friend

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosophical, Reflection, Psychology

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Process, Whole, Mislead

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• Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Thinking, Self

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• We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

  Amit Goswami

  Evolution, Biology, Species

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• From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Creativity, Creative

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

  Clifford Geertz

  Intellectual, Literature, Fields

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• I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

  Tom Paulin

  Thinking, Historical, British

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• I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

  Steven Seagal

  Spiritual, Years, Different

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• Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines... If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Military, Government, Organization

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• In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Dream, Wish, Make Things Happen

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . 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

  Long, Confusion, Unity

  Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

  Norman Mailer

  Art, People, Finals

  1959 'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no.23, Winter.

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• Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

  Bruno Bauer

  Self, Progress, Obstacles

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• We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Future, People, Vision

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• No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spiritual, Spring, Struggle

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Revenge, Habit, Individual

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• You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Character, People, Want

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• Consciousness is a disease.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Disease

  Miguel de Unamuno, Warner Fite (1928). “Mist: A Tragicomic Novel”, p.8, University of Illinois Press

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• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  Luciano Berio

  Spiritual, Ears, Demand

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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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• Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Gratitude, Attitude, Healing

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• A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Earth, Planets

  "Cosmos". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Life, Full Potential, Fields

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• Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply too far-fetched to be credible. I realized that if I were to embrace Darwinism and its underlying premise of naturalism, I would have to believe that: 1. Nothing produces everything 2. Non-life produces life 3. Randomness produces fine-tuning 4. Chaos produces information 5. Unconsciousness produces consciousness 6. Non-reason produces reason....The central pillars of evolutionary theory quickly rotted away when exposed to scrutiny.

  Lee Strobel

  Life, Believe, Years

  Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.355, Harper Collins

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