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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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"Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness."
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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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"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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"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion."
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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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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
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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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"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 eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
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"An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing."
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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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"Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
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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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"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."
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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
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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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"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
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"My experience of that liberation, what Buddha had called Nirvana, set me off in the path of scientific investigation of that Oneness, the thing people call, meeting with God. And that meeting triggered an unquenchable thirst in me to develop a proper scientific method to understand and further explore that apparently bizarre domain of Universal Consciousness."
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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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"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
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"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."
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