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Consciousness Quotes by Stephen Batchelor
- Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in…
- The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is…
- Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it…
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