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Consciousness Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness…
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
- The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.
- Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and…
- One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible…
- Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to…
- Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in…
- The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a…
- Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.
- There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his…
- That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or…
- She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous…
- Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness,…
- Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot…
- The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
- She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure…
More Consciousness Quotes
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are… — Hans Bender
- Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
- Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after… — Annie Besant
- The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to… — Annie Besant
- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno
- Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black… — Steven Biko
- The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a… — Steven Biko
- As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there. — Juliette Binoche
- Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its… — H. P. Blavatsky
- It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois