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Consciousness Quotes by William James
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
- Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field…
- As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness,…
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
- The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of…
- Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may…
- The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
- Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by…
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- 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