Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philipp Meyer

I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

Bill Clinton

I worry about all these grand ideas we promote here benefiting ordinary people. If they don't perceive that these grand ideas work in their lives, they won't develop a higher consciousness of the issues at stake.

Was he a great genius? Was he an eccentric? Was he someone who was trying to raise his consciousness in a way people can't even imagine? He was on his own path and everybody gets to be their own judge listening to the stories people tell in the film.

Deepak Chopra

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Knowledge is structured in consciousness

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Ayn Rand

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

Edmund Husserl

Psychology, on the other hand, is science of psychic Nature and, therefore, of consciousness as Nature or as real event in the spatiotemporal world.

Michio Kaku

Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little.

Roger Penrose

Consciousness is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known

Consciousness is in everything just as everything is in consciousness

Aristotle

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Michael O'Brien

Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they're doing good.

There is now more public consciousness about how large employers do not provide health care.

Erwin Schrodinger

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

James Broughton

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Gary Snyder

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

Fernando Pessoa

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

Eve Ensler

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

Rabindranath Tagore

So our daily worship of God is not really the process of gradual acquisition of him, but the daily process of surrendering ourselves, removing all obstacles to union and extending our consciousness of him in devotion and service, in goodness and in l

The struggle continues until it suddenly hits you, the greatest strugle of all, is the struggle within you.

Sathya Baba

A society has to be welded into a unit by the consciousness of kinship in God.

Richard Rhodes

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

James Nesbitt

I'm increasingly realising our consciousness and subconsciousness are extremely different, and our subconsciousness motivates us, but so far, I don't know what drove or motivates me.

Eknath Easwaran

Doing two or more things at the same time splits our consciousness in two or more ways.

Michael Leunig

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.

Chang-Rae Lee

In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.

Andre Holland

In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

Grant Morrison

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.