We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So… — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
“The boy knelt, shoulders bowed, on the sand in the grey of morning, moaning softly, fearfully. Glowing tendrils of energy streamed across… — J. Valor Copy Share Image
“It's precisely their diseases that people pride themselves on, and I do-more perhaps than anybody else. Let's not argue; my objection was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The Conscious Space Human consciousness is not very big. The conscious space that we use to process information about ourselves and others… — John G. Shobris Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Spirit is love, spirit is connection, inclusive, and that's what I'm interested in, and that's what moved me. That's what I got… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The illusion is irresistible. Behind every face there is a self. We see the signal of consciousness in a gleaming eye and… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“It is only at the reflective level that consciousness and the highest levels of feeling, emotions, and cognition reside. It is only… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“You are pure Spirit. Therefore to know: I am only this, and in each moment, regardless of what I believe I see,… — Shanti Christo Foundation Copy Share Image
“The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The nature of mind is the nature of everything." I wonder if this threefold process the bardos reveal is true not only,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing,… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
She [my mother] said, "You are fiercely protective of your inventions because you are your fans." She helped me understand my own… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is an outcome of a recursively comparative memory in which previous self-nonself categorizations are continually related to ongoing present perceptual categorizations… — Edelman Gerald Copy Share Image