The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space… — Judy Baca Copy Share Image
Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which… — Seth Copy Share Image
“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the harmony we desire. As we raise our level… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is not something housed in the brain like a treasure in a chest. It is the field of being in which… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your… — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
“Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
“Around 30,000 years ago, in the Aurignacian, at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, someone or some group in the Eyzies region… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Q: Are you saying that thought has a kind of possessive quality which stays, gets stuck, and then becomes habitual? And we… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
“We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in… — David Deida Copy Share Image
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The relationships among natural and drug-induced alterations of consciousness must be understood from an evolutionary perspective. This reveals altered consciousness to be… — John Rush Copy Share Image
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image