Age Quote by Frederick Lenz

Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only…

— H. P. Blavatsky

It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There…

— Eric Hoffer

Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a…

— Dan Simmons

“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain…

— Marcel Proust

Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

— Emile M. Cioran

“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time…

— Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an…

— Haruki Murakami

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we…

— David Chalmers

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

— Terence McKenna

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to…

— D. H. Lawrence