Consciousness Quotes · Page 53

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

— Theodor Adorno

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

— Robert Delaunay

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

— Anonymous

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

— David Lynch

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

— Annie Besant

“Needing to express what it’s like here… / Trying to digest the incoming stream … / And dream it all over again.”

— Jay Woodman

“How incredibly exciting this one meaningless thing can be, this life of yours.”

— Ross Caligiuri

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

— Steve Jobs

“The puruṣa is an intelligent principle, of which consciousness (caitanya) is not an attribute, but the very essence. It is the self…

— Satischandra Chatterjee

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we…

— Timothy Morton

“Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and…

— Rosalind Minsky

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves,…

— Henri Bergson

I'm feeling in the earth a massive shift, in especially female consciousness, that is... slightly different than feminism. It feels like this…

— Brigette Lundy-Paine

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also…

— Sri Aurobindo

Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and…

— Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side…

— Steve Jobs

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to…

— Isaac Asimov

You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment…

— Gale Harold

Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to…

— Rajneesh

“As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things…

— Thomas Ligotti

You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which…

— Alberto Manguel

In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

— Billy Joel

“Reconnecting with your soul is painful, but the benefits are everlasting.”

— Gerard Armond Powell

“The soul speaks in silence, not because it has nothing to say, but because truth requires stillness to be heard.”

— Anita Tholalu

“Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – many are unaware of the true role they play in Reality.”

— Etienne de L'Amour

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

— Norman Mailer

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses

— Gary Snyder

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

— Vijay Seshadri

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

— Mooji

“I am not old, I am not young, I'm possibilities unsung. I am paradox made flesh, heartbeat born of cosmic hum.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

— David Cronenberg

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

— John Locke

“The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

— Zadie Smith

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

— Ram Dass

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

— Wadada Leo Smith