Consciousness Quote by Louis Althusser

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even…

— Louis Althusser

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

— Eckhart Tolle

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are…

— Julian Jaynes

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

— Jacques Lacan

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

— Edward Boyden

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

— Jaggi Vasudev

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

— Gustave Le Bon

An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.

— Franz Clemens Brentano

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

— Julian Jaynes

“Believing in a non-existent unconscious simply reveals the not knowing about how the mind and our memory fundamentally works or who we really are.”

— Arne Klingenberg

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

— William Irwin Thompson