Consciousness Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

— D. H. Lawrence

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

— D. H. Lawrence

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

— D. H. Lawrence

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is…

— D. H. Lawrence

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a…

— D. H. Lawrence

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

— D. H. Lawrence

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of…

— D. H. Lawrence

Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in…

— D. H. Lawrence

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how…

— D. H. Lawrence

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of…

— D. H. Lawrence

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of,…

— D. H. Lawrence

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of…

— D. H. Lawrence

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness,…

— D. H. Lawrence

Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness… It is the consciousness of the…

— D. H. Lawrence

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is…

— D. H. Lawrence

There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out…

— D. H. Lawrence

That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man…

— D. H. Lawrence

I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery,…

— D. H. Lawrence

He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process…

— D. H. Lawrence

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of…

— D. H. Lawrence

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into…

— D. H. Lawrence

Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human…

— D. H. Lawrence