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Consciousness Quotes
"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable."
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"It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living."
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"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."
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
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"Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness."
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"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."
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"The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion."
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"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."
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"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."
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"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."
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"The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure."
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"We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
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"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
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"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"."
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"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
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"An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing."
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"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."
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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
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"We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within."
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"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."
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"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."
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"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."
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"When I write, I enter a transpersonal state of consciousness, a lightheaded realm of mental imagination, a cognitive place where I can lithely finger the coherent and the absurd. I seek to cross over an intricate boarder where the conscious and unconscious minds meet, traversing the aperture where the real and the imaginary intermingle. I aspire to establish a detached vantage point where I can survey the entire human condition."
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"Consciousness of unconsciousness."
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"The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years."
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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
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"Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body."
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"Where there is no consciousness, there is no time."
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"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences."
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"There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country."
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"Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility."
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"The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness."
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"This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness."
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"I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths."
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"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."
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"Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms."
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"Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness."
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"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
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"I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either."
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"The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged."
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"Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it."
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"For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell."
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."
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"There are three levels of consciousness. The first level is when you stop thinking and letting outside sources think for you. In which you become a different mind. The second is simply thinking. The third the highest form of consciousness. Is when you rise ABOVE thought. Transcend thought by shutting it completely off."
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"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."
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
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