Alive Quote by Leo Tolstoy

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

— John Locke

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

— Greg Iles

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself…

— Karl Jaspers

“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure. You cannot…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

— Thomas Carlyle

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

— Sri Chinmoy

“It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence—rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.”

— Karl R. Popper

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

— Ernst Mach

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from…

— Albert Einstein

“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.”

— Sam Harris

It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not…

— Ernest Wood