Able Quote by James Small

“• Conscious: “to be aware of one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings” • Consciousness: “the state of being conscious.” According to this, each one…

— L. Emerson Ferrell

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

— William James

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

— Aristotle

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware of the…

— James Small

An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and…

— Harold Klemp

Consciousness means being present to everything in life as it unfolds.

— Anonymous

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

— Alva Noe

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane…

— Anonymous

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

— John Locke

You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless…

— Frederick Lenz

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

— David Foster Wallace