Conscious Quotes

2024 Conscious quotes by 1346 unique authors

I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of… — Alicia Ostriker
Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not… — Mike Caro
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways… — Edward Thorndike
I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen,… — Tracey Emin
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's… — Jerry Garcia
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and… — Zelda Fitzgerald
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness... — C.S. Lewis
Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some… — Duane Elgin
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,… — Thomas Carlyle
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the… — John Millington Synge
One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality… — Flannery O'Connor
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased… — Clifford Geertz
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas… — Peter Weir
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious. — P D Ouspensky
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral… — Carl Jung
There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but… — Larry Coryell
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. — Jean Toomer
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.… — Jon Krakauer
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the… — A.J. Ayer
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to… — Christian Lous Lange
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times… — Marlene Dietrich
I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious. — Duane Elgin
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that… — Duane Elgin
By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you. — Deepak Chopra
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in… — Neal A. Maxwell

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