Consciousness Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am,"…

— Julien Benda

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

— William James

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent,…

— Novalis

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

— Epictetus

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

— Bernard Lonergan

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself.…

— Kenny Smith

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds…

— Louis Althusser

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

— Will Durant

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to…

— Olaf Stapledon

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

— Philip Kitcher